# חוֹמָה (chomah) Israeli respelling: cho-mah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H2346. 123 Old Testament occurrences. a wall of protection King James renderings: wall, walled. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chomah-h2346 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 14:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/22) — And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, an… - [Exodus 14:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/29) — But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on t… - [Leviticus 25:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/29) — And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he… - [Leviticus 25:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/30) — And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him t… - [Leviticus 25:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/31) — But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and… - [Deuteronomy 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/5) — All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. - [Deuteronomy 28:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/52) — And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and… - [Joshua 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/15) — Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. - [Joshua 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/5) — And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people… - [Joshua 6:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/20) — So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the… - [1 Samuel 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/16) — They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. - [1 Samuel 31:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/31/10) — And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan. - [1 Samuel 31:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/31/12) — All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to… - [2 Samuel 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/11/20) — And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye no… - [2 Samuel 11:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/11/21) — Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? wh… - [2 Samuel 11:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/11/24) — And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is de… - [2 Samuel 18:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/24) — And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked,… - [2 Samuel 20:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/15) — And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the pe… - [2 Samuel 20:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/21) — The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against D… - [1 Kings 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/3/1) — And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had mad… - [1 Kings 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/4/13) — The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the r… - [1 Kings 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/9/15) — And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wal… - [1 Kings 20:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/30) — But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fle… - [2 Kings 3:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/3/27) — Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great… - [2 Kings 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/26) — And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. - [2 Kings 6:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/30) — And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people l… - [2 Kings 14:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/14/13) — And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and br… - [2 Kings 18:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/26) — Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for… - [2 Kings 18:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/27) — But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which… - [2 Kings 25:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/4) — And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (… - [2 Kings 25:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/10) — And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. - [2 Chronicles 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/8/5) — Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; - [2 Chronicles 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/7) — Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet befo… - [2 Chronicles 25:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/23) — And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusale… - [2 Chronicles 26:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/6) — And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and… - [2 Chronicles 27:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/27/3) — He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. - [2 Chronicles 32:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/32/5) — Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repa… - [2 Chronicles 32:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/32/18) — Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble… - [2 Chronicles 33:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/14) — Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gat… - [2 Chronicles 36:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/19) — And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the g… - [Nehemiah 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/1/3) — And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of J… - [Nehemiah 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/8) — And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which apperta… - [Nehemiah 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/13) — And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, wh… - [Nehemiah 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/15) — Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned. - [Nehemiah 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/17) — Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and… - [Nehemiah 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/8) — Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecari… - [Nehemiah 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/13) — The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars… - [Nehemiah 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/15) — But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the… - [Nehemiah 3:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/3/27) — After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel. - [Nehemiah 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/1) — But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. - [Nehemiah 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/3) — Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. - [Nehemiah 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/6) — So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. - [Nehemiah 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/7) — But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jeru… - [Nehemiah 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/10) — And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. - [Nehemiah 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/13) — Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords… - [Nehemiah 4:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/15) — And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of… - [Nehemiah 4:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/17) — They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and… - [Nehemiah 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/19) — And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wa… - [Nehemiah 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/16) — Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work. - [Nehemiah 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/1) — Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, an… - [Nehemiah 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/6) — Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou bui… - [Nehemiah 6:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/15) — So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. - [Nehemiah 7:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/1) — Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, - [Nehemiah 12:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/27) — And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the ded… - [Nehemiah 12:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/30) — And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. - [Nehemiah 12:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/31) — Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the r… - [Nehemiah 12:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/37) — And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above… - [Nehemiah 12:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/38) — And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from bey… - [Nehemiah 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/21) — Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time… - [Psalms 51:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/18) — Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. - [Psalms 55:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/10) — Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. - [Proverbs 18:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/11) — The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. - [Proverbs 25:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/28) — He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. - [Song of Solomon 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/7) — The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. - [Song of Solomon 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/9) — If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. - [Song of Solomon 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/10) — I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour. - [Isaiah 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/15) — And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, - [Isaiah 22:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/10) — And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. - [Isaiah 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/11) — Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respec… - [Isaiah 25:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/25/12) — And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. - [Isaiah 26:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/1) — In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. - [Isaiah 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/13) — Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instan… - [Isaiah 36:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/36/11) — Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: a… - [Isaiah 36:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/36/12) — But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the… - [Isaiah 49:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/16) — Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. - [Isaiah 56:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/56/5) — Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an e… - [Isaiah 60:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/10) — And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favou… - [Isaiah 60:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/18) — Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy g… - [Isaiah 62:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/62/6) — I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep n… - [Jeremiah 1:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/15) — For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his t… - [Jeremiah 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/18) — For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of J… - [Jeremiah 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/20) — And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for… - [Jeremiah 21:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/21/4) — Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king… - [Jeremiah 39:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/39/4) — And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city… - [Jeremiah 39:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/39/8) — And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. - [Jeremiah 49:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/27) — And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad. - [Jeremiah 50:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/15) — Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of t… - [Jeremiah 51:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/12) — Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both dev… - [Jeremiah 51:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/44) — And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow t… - [Jeremiah 51:58](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/58) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peo… - [Jeremiah 52:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/7) — Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two wa… - [Jeremiah 52:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/14) — And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. - [Lamentations 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/7) — The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; the… - [Lamentations 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/8) — The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destr… - [Lamentations 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/18) — Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let n… - [Ezekiel 26:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/4) — And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a… - [Ezekiel 26:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/9) — And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. - [Ezekiel 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/10) — By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels… - [Ezekiel 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/12) — And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasan… - [Ezekiel 27:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/11) — The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy… - [Ezekiel 38:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/11) — And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwell… - [Ezekiel 38:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/20) — So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth,… - [Ezekiel 40:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/5) — And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an ha… - [Ezekiel 42:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/42/20) — He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between… - [Joel 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/7) — They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not b… - [Joel 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/9) — They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the window… - [Amos 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/1/7) — But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof: - [Amos 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/1/10) — But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof. - [Amos 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/1/14) — But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest… - [Amos 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/7) — Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. - [Nahum 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/5) — He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepar… - [Nahum 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/8) — Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her… - [Zechariah 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/2/5) — For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.