Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H2428: חַיִל (chayil) Definition

Strong's number
H2428
Lemma
חַיִל
Transliteration
chayil
Pronunciation
khah'-yil
Strong's definition
probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength able, activity, ([phrase]) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ([phrase]) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily). from H2342 (חוּל);

229 instances of the word חַיִל chayil (H2428)


  • 1 Chronicles 26:6 - Also unto Shemaiah his son born his son that ruled throughout the house of their father for they were mighty men of valour

  • 1 Chronicles 26:7 - The sons of Shemaiah Othni and Rephael and Obed Elzabad whose brethren The sons were strong Elihu and Semachiah

  • 1 Chronicles 26:8 - All these of the sons of Obededom All these of the sons and their brethren men able for strength for the service were threescore and two of Obededom

  • 1 Chronicles 26:9 - And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren had sons strong eighteen

  • 1 Chronicles 26:30 - And of the Hebronites Hashabiah and his brethren men of valour a thousand and seven hundred were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD and in the service of the king

  • 1 Chronicles 26:31 - Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief Among the Hebronites according to the generations of his fathers year In the fortieth of the reign of David they were sought for and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead

  • 1 Chronicles 26:32 - And his brethren men of valour were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers made rulers David of the king over the Reubenites the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh and affairs pertaining to God and affairs of the king

  • 1 Chronicles 28:1 - assembled And David all the princes of Israel all the princes of the tribes all the princes by course that ministered of the king all the princes over the thousands all the princes over the hundreds all the princes over all the substance and possession of the king and of his sons with the officers and with the mighty men and with the mighty men and with all the valiant men unto Jerusalem

  • 1 Kings 1:42 - And while he yet spake behold Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came said and Adonijah came man for thou art a valiant good and bringest

  • 1 Kings 1:52 - said And Solomon man If he will shew himself a worthy of him fall there shall not an hair to the earth but if wickedness shall be found in him he shall die

  • 1 Kings 10:2 - And she came to Jerusalem train great and very with camels that bare spices gold much and very stones and precious And she came to Solomon she communed with him of all that was in her heart

  • 1 Kings 11:28 - And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour seeing and Solomon the young man that he was industrious he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph

  • 1 Kings 15:20 - hearkened So Benhadad unto king Asa and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel and smote Ijon and Dan and Abelbethmaachah and all Cinneroth with all the land of Naphtali

  • 1 Kings 20:1 - And Benhadad kings of Syria gathered all his host and there were thirty and two kings with him and horses and chariots and he went up and besieged Samaria and warred

  • 1 Kings 20:19 - came out of the city So these young men of the princes of the provinces and the army which followed

  • 1 Kings 20:25 - And number like the army like the army that thou hast lost for horse for horse and chariot and chariot and we will fight them in the plain and surely we shall be stronger than they And he hearkened unto their voice and did so

  • 1 Samuel 2:4 - The bows of the mighty men are broken and they that stumbled are girded with strength

  • 1 Samuel 9:1 - Now there was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish the son of Abiel the son of Zeror the son of Bechorath the son of Aphiah the son Now there was a man a mighty of power

  • 1 Samuel 10:26 - And Saul also went home to Gibeah also went with him a band of men had touched God whose hearts

  • 1 Samuel 14:48 - And he gathered an host and smote the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled