חוֹמָה chôwmâh
Meaning
a wall of protection
In the King James Version: wall, walled.
Derivation: feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join;
Where it is used
- Nahum 2:5 He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.
- Nahum 3:8 Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
- Zechariah 2:5 For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”