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2 Chronicles 31:7
“In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
חֹדֶשׁchôdesh · kho'-desh
H2320 · Hebrew
H2320 · Hebrew
- Definition
- the new moon; by implication, a month
- Derivation
- from H2318 (חָדַשׁ);
- KJV renderings
- month(-ly), new moon.
- Grammar
- בַּ — preposition with definite article
- חֹ֨דֶשׁ֙ — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 283 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 7:11Genesis 7:11Genesis 8:4Genesis 8:4Genesis 8:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חֹדֶשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.