English Bible words starting with H
620 meanings beginning with H, in alphabetical order. This is page 1 of 7. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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ha1 word
Habaiah1 word
Habakkuk1 word
Habazziniah1 word
habit2 words
habitation10 words
- skēnēσκηνήa tent or booth: a temporary shelter of cloth or animal skins that people pitch and later take down
+2 more meanings
- the tabernacle: the portable tent-sanctuary where God lived among Israel in the wilderness, and the heavenly sanctuary it stood for
- a dwelling place: an enduring home, above all God's dwelling with his people and the eternal home of the redeemed
- mishkanמִשְׁכָּןa dwelling place: where someone or something resides, most often the LORD's tent-sanctuary in the wilderness
- moshavמוֹשָׁבa place where someone sits or lives: a seat, a settlement, or the act of dwelling there
- navehנָוֶהa settled place of rest: the shepherd's pasture and fold, and by extension the secure home of people or of God
- ma'onמָעוֹןa dwelling place or abode: the settled home where someone or something lives
- skēnēσκηνήa tent or booth: a temporary shelter of cloth or animal skins that people pitch and later take down
habitations2 words
Habor1 word
Hacaliah1 word
Hachilah1 word
Hachmonite1 word
had compassion1 word
had died1 word
Hadad3 words
Hadad-rimmon1 word
Hadadezer1 word
Hadar1 word
Hadarezer1 word
Hadashah1 word
Hadassah1 word
Hades1 word
Hadid1 word
Hadlai1 word
Hadoram1 word
Hadrach1 word
Haeleph1 word
Hagab1 word
Hagaba1 word
Hagar2 words
Haggai1 word
Haggi1 word
Haggiah1 word
Haggith1 word
Hagri1 word
hail5 words
- chairōχαίρωa greeting: "hail!" or "greetings!"
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- to rejoice; to be glad, to feel and show joy
- chalazaχάλαζαhailnot studied yet
- baradבָּרָדhail: chunks of ice that fall from a storm sky, in the Bible almost always as a weapon God hurls in judgment
- elgavishאֶלְגָּבִישׁhailnot studied yet
- baradבָּרַדto hailnot studied yet
- chairōχαίρωa greeting: "hail!" or "greetings!"
hailstones2 words
- evenאֶבֶןa stone: a piece of rock a person can gather, shape, carry, throw, or build with
+3 more meanings
- a precious stone: a gem valued for its beauty and worth
- a stone used as a standard of measure: the weight in a merchant's bag or on a builder's line
- stone as an image of what is hard, heavy, lifeless, or dirt cheap
- baradבָּרָדhail: chunks of ice that fall from a storm sky, in the Bible almost always as a weapon God hurls in judgment
- evenאֶבֶןa stone: a piece of rock a person can gather, shape, carry, throw, or build with
hair6 words
- thrixθρίξhair: the fine threadlike growth on the head or body of a person or animal, or a single strand of it
- se'arשֵׂעָרhair: the strands that grow on the head, face, or body of a person or animal, taken together as a whole head or coat of hair, and by extension the coarse hair woven into a rough garment
- komēκόμηhairnot studied yet
- dallahדַּלָּהhanging strands: the loose hair falling from a head, or the threads left dangling on a weaver's loom
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- the poorest of a land: the lowest and least powerful layer of a population, and more broadly what is reduced and thin
- sa'arahשַׂעֲרָהhairnot studied yet
hairstyle1 word
hairy1 word
Hakkatan1 word
hakkoz1 word
- qotsהַקוֹץHakkoz: a priestly family, and the ancestor it is named after, holding the seventh turn of duty at the temple.
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- Koz: a man in the family lists of Judah, named as the father of Anub and Zobebah.
- qotsהַקוֹץHakkoz: a priestly family, and the ancestor it is named after, holding the seventh turn of duty at the temple.
Hakupha1 word
Halah1 word
Halak1 word
half7 words
- hēmisusἥμισυςhalfnot studied yet
- ḥetsiחֲצִיhalf: one of the two parts something splits into, or the point where it splits
- maḥatsitמַחֲצִיתhalf: one of the two parts something splits into when it is divided down the middle, or a portion measured as one half of a whole
- beterבֶּתֶרa severed half of an animal, one of a matching pair laid out so people making a covenant could pass between the pieces under a binding oath
- peresפְּרֵסa half-measure weight: the half-mina, a standard unit of silver weight in the ancient eastern world
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- to divide, to break in two: split apart, and so broken up or parceled out
half an hour1 word
half dead1 word
half-dead1 word
half-district1 word
- pelekhפֶּלֶךְa spindle: the weighted hand tool used to twist loose wool or flax into thread
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- a district: an administrative division of the land with an official set over it
- pelekhפֶּלֶךְa spindle: the weighted hand tool used to twist loose wool or flax into thread
Halhul1 word
hali1 word
hall3 words
hallelujah2 words
Hallohesh1 word
hallow2 words
halt1 word
Ham2 words
Haman1 word
Hamath1 word
Hamath the great1 word
Hamath-zobah1 word
Hammath1 word
Hammedatha1 word
hammer5 words
hammered1 word
hammered out2 words
hammered work1 word
Hammolecheth1 word
Hammon1 word
Hammoth-dor1 word
Hammuel1 word
Hamon-gog1 word
Hamonah1 word
Hamor2 words
hampered1 word
hamstring2 words
- iqqerעִקֵּרto pull something out by the roots: to grub a plant out of the ground, or to tear a town out of its place for good
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- to cripple an animal on purpose by cutting the large tendon at the back of its leg
- nashehנָשֶׁהhamstringnot studied yet
- iqqerעִקֵּרto pull something out by the roots: to grub a plant out of the ground, or to tear a town out of its place for good
Hamul1 word
Hamutal1 word
Hanamel1 word
Hanan1 word
Hananel1 word
Hanani1 word
Hananiah1 word
hand5 words
- cheirχείρthe hand: the body part, and by extension the power, agency, and ownership that a hand stands for
- yadיָדthe hand: the part of the body that grasps and works, and by extension the power, the doing, and the reach that a hand stands for
- kaphכַּףthe palm of the hand, the open cupped inner hand: the part that holds, grasps, claps, or lifts up in prayer.
+3 more meanings
- the sole of the foot, the flat hollow underside that meets the ground.
- the socket of the hip, the rounded hollow where the thigh joins the body.
- the pouch or hollow of a sling, the cupped part that cradles the stone.
- epididōmiἐπιδίδωμιto hand something over: to put a thing straight into the hands of the person it is meant for
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- to give way: to stop resisting a force and let it carry you along
- yadיַדhand: the physical hand, and by extension the power, control, or safekeeping that a hand stands for
hand over3 words
- paradidōmiπαραδίδωμιto hand over: to place a person or thing out of one's own keeping and into the power, custody, or care of someone else
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- to hand down: to pass on a teaching, account, or body of belief from one person or generation to the next
- sagarסָגַרto hand over or surrender someone into another's power
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- to shut or close something, keeping what is outside out or what is inside in
- makharמָכַרto transfer a person or thing to another's possession or control, whether through commercial exchange or as an act of judicial power
- paradidōmiπαραδίδωμιto hand over: to place a person or thing out of one's own keeping and into the power, custody, or care of someone else
hand-made1 word
handbreadth2 words
handed over1 word
handful3 words
handiwork1 word
handkerchief1 word
handle1 word
handmaid2 words
handsome1 word
- yaphehיָפֶהbeautiful: pleasing to look at or to take in through the senses
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- fitting: right, suitable, or good for its moment
- yaphehיָפֶהbeautiful: pleasing to look at or to take in through the senses
Hanes1 word
hang5 words
- kremaōκρεμάωto hang: to fasten something at one point and leave it dangling there, and so also to rest one thing's whole weight on another
- talahתָּלָהto hang: to fasten something so that it dangles from a support, whether an object on a peg or a person's body on a tree or gallows
- dalalדָּלַלto sink low: to hang slack, run dry, or be worn down until almost nothing is left
- yaqaיָקַעto be wrenched out of place: a joint torn from its socket, or the inner self torn away from someone in revulsion
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- to impale or expose a body in a solemn public execution carried out before the LORD
- talaתָּלָאto hangnot studied yet
hang up1 word
hang upon1 word
hanged1 word
hanging1 word