Strong’s
H2300aVerb4 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Ezekiel 21:9הוּחַדָּה
“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—
- Habakkuk 1:8וְחַדּוּ
Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[חָדַד] vb. be sharp, keen
Qal are keener than evening wolves
Hiph. the smith sharpeneth an axe.
Hoph. be sharpened
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.