חַיִל chayil

Meaning

probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength

In the King James Version: able, activity, ([phrase]) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ([phrase]) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily).

Derivation: from H2342 (חוּל);

Where it is used

• 2 Chronicles 26:12 The total number of family leaders of the mighty men of valor was 2,600.
• 2 Chronicles 26:13 Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.
• 2 Chronicles 26:17 Then Azariah the priest, along with eighty brave priests of the LORD, went in after him.
• 2 Chronicles 28:6 For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.
• 2 Chronicles 32:21 and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
• 2 Chronicles 33:14 After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
• Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”
• Nehemiah 2:9 Then I went to the governors west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.
• Nehemiah 4:2 before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
• Nehemiah 11:6 The descendants of Perez who settled in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of valor.
• Nehemiah 11:14 and his associates—128 mighty men of valor. Zabdiel son of Haggedolim was their overseer.
• Esther 1:3 In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
• Esther 8:11 By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
• Job 5:5 The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
• Job 15:29 He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
• Job 20:15 He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
• Job 20:18 He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
• Job 21:7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
• Job 31:25 if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
• Psalms 10:10 They are crushed and beaten down; the helpless fall prey to his strength.
• Psalms 18:32 It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.
• Psalms 18:39 You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.
• Psalms 33:16 No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
• Psalms 33:17 A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
• Psalms 49:6 They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
• Psalms 49:10 For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.
• Psalms 59:11 Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
• Psalms 60:12 With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
• Psalms 62:10 Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
• Psalms 73:12 Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree as they increase their wealth.
• Psalms 76:5 The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
• Psalms 84:7 They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.
• Psalms 108:13 With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
• Psalms 110:3 Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
• Psalms 118:15 Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!
• Psalms 118:16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted! The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!”
• Psalms 136:15 but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever.
• Proverbs 12:4 A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
• Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
• Proverbs 31:3 Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
• Proverbs 31:10 A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
• Proverbs 31:29 “Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!”
• Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.
• Ecclesiastes 12:3 on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
• Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,
• Isaiah 8:4 For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
• Isaiah 10:14 My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
• Isaiah 30:6 This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
• Isaiah 36:2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
• Isaiah 43:17 who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
• Isaiah 60:5 Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
• Isaiah 60:11 Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.
• Isaiah 61:6 But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
• Jeremiah 15:13 Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
• Jeremiah 17:3 O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
• Jeremiah 32:2 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
• Jeremiah 34:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.
• Jeremiah 34:7 as the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah. For these were the only fortified cities remaining in Judah.
• Jeremiah 34:21 And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.
• Jeremiah 35:11 So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”