חַלּוֹן
window
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute 13 times (41%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute 12 times (38%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct 4 times (13%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct 3 times (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 32 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2474 appears — 27 distinct verses across 14 books. 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 2 verses
- Genesis 8:6 חַלּ֥וֹן n c bs cs It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
- Genesis 26:8 הַֽ/חַלּ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + n c bs It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 2:15 הַֽ/חַלּ֑וֹן ptcl def.art + n c bs Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
- Joshua 2:18 בַּֽ/חַלּוֹן֙ prep det + n c bs Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by: and you shall gather to you into the house your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household.
- Joshua 2:21 בַּ/חַלּֽוֹן prep det + n c bs She said, According to your words, so be it. She sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
Judges 1 verse
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 9:30 הַ/חַלּֽוֹן ptcl def.art + n c bs When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
- 2 Kings 9:32 הַ֣/חַלּ֔וֹן ptcl def.art + n c bs He lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? There looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
- 2 Kings 13:17 הַ/חַלּ֛וֹן ptcl def.art + n c bs He said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. He said, Yahweh's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Proverbs 1 verse
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 9:21 בְּ/חַלּוֹנֵ֔י/נוּ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.
- Jeremiah 22:14 חַלּוֹנָ֔/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Ezekiel 8 verses
- Ezekiel 40:16 וְ/חַלֹּנ֣וֹת וְ/חַלּוֹנ֞וֹת conj + n c bp conj + n c bp There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 40:22 ו/חלונ/ו וְ/חַלּוֹנָ֤י/ו conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches of it were before them.
- Ezekiel 40:25 וְ/חַלּוֹנִ֨ים כְּ/הַ/חֲלֹּנ֖וֹת conj + n c bp prep + ptcl def.art + n c bp There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:29 וְ/חַלּוֹנ֥וֹת conj + n c bp and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:33 וְ/חַלּוֹנ֥וֹת conj + n c bp and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:36 וְ/חַלּוֹנ֥וֹת conj + n c bp the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it: and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:16 וְ/הַ/חַלּוֹנִ֣ים הַֽ/חַלֹּנ֔וֹת וְ/הַֽ/חַלֹּנ֖וֹת conj + ptcl def.art + n c bp ptcl def.art + n c bp conj + ptcl def.art + n c bp the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
- Ezekiel 41:26 וְ/חַלּוֹנִ֨ים conj + n c bp There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
Joel 1 verse
Zephaniah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“window” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun חלון (challôwn). Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 8:6. It turns up in 27 verses across 14 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in Ezekiel, which alone accounts for 30% of its uses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2474 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 →
- 27
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 27 distinct verses.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,086
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,086 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 27 occurrences in the concordance →
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 27 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 22 verses · 81%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 11%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Windows 12×, Window 11×, Were windows 3×
- American Standard Version: Window 11×, Windows 11×, According to these measures and there were windows 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Window 14×, Windows 11×, Had windows 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Window 13×, Windows 10×, Were windows 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2474 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2474 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2474 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2474 across 33 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- window (piercing of the wall)
Word origin
n.m. Jos 2:18 and f. Ez 40:16 window, abs. הַחַלּוֹן Gn 26:8 + 12 times; cstr. חַלּוֹן Gn 8:6 Pr 7:6; sf. חַלּוֹנָו֯ Ez 40:22; mpl. חַלּוֹנִים Ez 40:25 + 3 times; cstr. חַלּוֹנֵי 1 K 6:4; sf. חַלּוֹנָי֑ Je 22:14 (defective pl. Ges§ 87 (1)c, dual Ew§ 177 a, but read יו סָפוֹן Mich Hi Gf Or Gie); חַלּוֹנֵינוּ Je 9:20; f. חַלּוֹנוֹת Ez 40:16 + 4 times; חַלֹּנוֹת Ct 2:9 + 3 times; window פָּתַח ח׳ open the window Gn 8:6 (P) 2 K 13:17; עלה בח׳ Je 9:20; בעד הח׳ through the window Gn 26:8 Jos 2:15 (J) Ju 5:28 1 S 19:12 2 S 6:16 = 1 Ch 15:29, 2 K 9:30 Jo 2:9; latticed windows 1 K 6:4 Ez 40:16; 41:16, 26; בּח׳ Jos 2:18, 21 (J) Pr 7:6 Zp 2:14; אֶל־הח׳ 2 K 9:32; מִן־הח׳ Ct 2:9; windows of palace, קָרַע לוֹ חַלּוֹנָי(ו) Je 22:14 cutteth him out his windows; of the gates of Ezek.’s temple Ez 40:16, 22, 25(×2), 29, 33, 36, of the temple itself Ez 41:16(×2).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: unknown derivation
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.
חַלּוֹן
- c. (b. h.; perforation, aperture, window. B. Bath. III, 6 ח׳ המצרית וכ׳ the Egyptian window (a very small aperture in the wall) gives no privilege (v. חֲזָקָה), i.e. the neighbor may build against it, contrad. to הצורית a Tyrian window. Gen. R. s. 31, expl. צהר (Gen. VI, 16); a. v. fr.—Pl. חַלּוֹנוֹת. Y. R. Hash. II, 58ᵃ; Ex. R. s. 15 שס"ה ח׳ וכ׳ 365 apertures did the Lord create in the sky; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 6:16
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 26 distinct written forms H2474 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 27 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 27 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 8:6
- Joshua 2:15
- Judges 5:28
- 1 Samuel 19:12
- 2 Samuel 6:16
- 1 Kings 6:4
- 2 Kings 9:30
- 1 Chronicles 15:29
- Proverbs 7:6
- Song of Solomon 2:9
- Jeremiah 9:21
- Ezekiel 40:16
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
