חוֹבָה
Hobah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Hobah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2327 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
About this entry
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חובה — transliterated chôwbâh — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Hobah.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Genesis (100% of all occurrences). It occurs only once, in Genesis 14:15. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2327 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Hobah 1×
- American Standard Version: Pursued them unto hobah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hobah 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hobah 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2327 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2327 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2327 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2327 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Hobah = "hiding place"
- a city north of Damascus to which Abraham pursued the kings who had pillaged Sodom
Word origin
n.pr.loc. Gn 14:15, north of Damascus; mod. Ḫoba, 20 hours N. of Dam., according to Wetzst Del Gn. ed. 4, 561 ff. so Di.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חבה (châbâh) (H2247) — to hide.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חוּבָּא II
- ḥubba, name of a bird. Ḥull. 62ᵇ
חוּבָּה II
- Ḥubbah, wife of R. Huna. B. Kam. 80ᵃ (Ms. M. חִיבָּה); Naz. 57ᵇ
חוּבָה
- storage, v. חֵבָה.
חוֹבָה
- (חוּב) obligation, duty; (sub. קרבן) obligatory sacrifice, opp. נְדָבָה. Naz. II, 8 הרי אני נזיר ח׳ I am a Nazir by obligation (because the condition of my vow was fulfilled), opp. נזיר נדבה a voluntary nazarite without a conditional vow. Ib. הראשון ח׳ in that case my first nazariteship was obligatory. Kinnim I, 1 הח׳ the obligatory sacrifices, opp. נדרים ונדבות. Ber. 27ᵇ תפלת … רשות או ח׳ is the evening prayer elective or obligatory? Zeb. I, 1 לא עלו … לשם ח׳ they are not accounted to those who offered them as a compliance with the obligation under which they are. Ber. 8ᵇ, a. fr. יוצא … ידי חוֹבָתוֹ has paid his obligation (of reading the Sh’ma). Ib. 20ᵇ, a. fr. אינו מוציא … ידי חוֹבָתָן cannot be the medium through which others pay their obligation (v. חוּב); a. fr. חוֹבַת הגוף, חוֹבַת גברא &c., v. גּוּף, גַּבְרָא &c.—Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ bot. פרוש אדע חוֹבָתִי וכ׳ a Pharisee of the class (of those who say), ‘I want to know my obligation, and I will pay it’, expl. הי דא חובתא וכ׳ what wrong have I done that I may do a good act to make up for it.—Pl. חוֹבוֹת. Succ. 56ᵃ, v. רֶגֶל; a. e.—2) condemnation, doom.—Pl. as ab. Midr. Till. to Ps IV, 8 פותחין בח׳ begin with predictions of doom, opp. נחמות. [חוֹבָה Ch., v. חוֹבָא.] e.g. Psalms 4:8
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2327, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hobah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Hiding-place, a place to the north of Damascus, to which Abraham pursued Chedorlaomer and his confederates (Gen. 14:15).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(hiding-place), the place to which Abraham pursued the kings who had pillaged Sodom. (Genesis 14:15) It was situated "to the north of Damascus."
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
love; friendship; secrecy
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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