Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
window
Usage: window (piercing of the wall)
Challon means “window” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2474 — israel in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2474 חַלּוֹן (challown) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. challown (khal-lone') n-e. 1. window [a window (as perforated)] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include windows and window. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
challown (khal-lone') n-e. 1. window [a window (as perforated)]
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window
Usage: window (piercing of the wall)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render challown, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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27 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
And it came to pass, 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 sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2474.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
And it came to pass, 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 sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2474, grouped by book.
Challon (Strong's H2474) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "window". challown (khal-lone') n-e. 1. window [a window (as perforated)]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's H2474 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2474 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as windows and window. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.