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Trench

3Greek/Hebrew entries
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Hebrew H2426 chêyl

Original: חֵיל

Meaning:
or (shortened) חֵל; a collateral form of חַיִל; an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment; army, bulwark, host, [phrase] poor, rampart, trench, wall.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: army, bulwark, host, [phrase] poor, rampart, trench, wall.

Hebrew H4570 maʻgâl

Original: מַעְגָּל

Meaning:
or feminine מַעְגָּלָה; from the same as עָגֹל; a track (literally or figuratively); also a rampart (as circular); going, path, trench, way(-side).

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: going, path, trench, way(-side).

Hebrew H8585 tᵉʻâlâh

Original: תְּעָלָה

Meaning:
from עָלָה; a channel (into which water is raised for irrigation); also a bandage or plaster (as placed upon a wound); conduit, cured, healing, little river, trench, watercourse.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: conduit, cured, healing, little river, trench, watercourse.

Verses containing this word showing 8 of 8
1 Samuel 17:20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. Open
1 Samuel 26:5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him. Open
1 Samuel 26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him. Open
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 people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. Open
1 Kings 18:32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. Open
1 Kings 18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. Open
1 Kings 18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. Open
Luke 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, Open

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