חָנָה
ḥānâ
decline
Strong's H2583VerbHebrewTWOT 690

חָנָה (ḥānâ) is a Hebrew verb meaning decline. It appears 143 times in 20 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2583).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 690)

Range of meaning (TWOT 690)decline, bend down, encamp; verge toward, incline to, settle at; incline, pitch; abide, camp, dwell, grow to an end, lie, rest in tent
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

חָנָה verb: decline, bend down, encamp

Strong's H2583 חָנָה: properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or siege)
KJV:abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 26:17Exodus 13:20Numbers 1:50

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