H2342 חוּל
chûwl — properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear;…
KJV: bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to) calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with…
Occurs 60 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חוּל [חִיל] vb. whirl, dance, writhe
- Qal
- 1 dance
- 2 twist, writhe
- 3 whirl, whirl about
- Po‛lel
- 1 dance
- 2 writhe in travail with, bear, bring forth (poet.)
- 3 wait anxiously
- Po‛lal
- 1 be made to writhe
- 2 be brought forth
- Hiph. cause to be in anguish
- Hoph. be born
- Hithpol.
- 1 whirling
- 2 writhing, suffering torture
- 3 wait longingly
- Hithpalp. and she writhed in anxiety
- חול vb
- [חול, חִיל] vb. be firm, strong
Where it occurs
- Genesis 8:10 — He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
- Deuteronomy 2:25 — Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall…
- Deuteronomy 32:18 — Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
- Judges 3:25 — They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the…
- Judges 21:21 — and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and…
- Judges 21:23 — The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom…
- 1 Samuel 31:3 — The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
- 2 Samuel 3:29 — Let it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a…
- Isaiah 13:8 — They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in…
- Isaiah 23:4 — Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth…