# H2583 חָנָה

חָנָה (chânâh), Strong’s H2583: properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch atent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege) KJV: abide (in…

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*chânâh* — properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch atent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege)

KJV: abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.

Occurs 143 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָנָה 143 vb. decline, bend down, encamp
- Qal
- 1 decline, of day drawing to its close
- 2 encamp (prop. verge toward, incline to, settle at, of goal of day’s march)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 26:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=17) — Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
- [Genesis 33:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=18) — Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped…
- [Exodus 13:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/13?v=20) — They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
- [Exodus 14:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=2) — “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before…
- [Exodus 14:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=9) — The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping…
- [Exodus 15:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=27) — They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.
- [Exodus 17:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=1) — All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to the LORD’s…
- [Exodus 18:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=5) — Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at…
- [Exodus 19:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/19?v=2) — When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and…
- [Numbers 1:50](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=50) — but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs…