Strong's Concordance H2428

Original Word: חַיִל
Transliteration: chayil
Phonetic Spelling: khah'-yil
from H2342; probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength; able, activity, ( ) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ( ) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily).

Usages throughout the bible

1 Kings 11:28 - And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: H2428 and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.

1 Kings 15:20 - So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts H2428 which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

1 Kings 20:1 - And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host H2428 together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.

1 Kings 20:19 - So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army H2428 which followed them.

1 Kings 20:25 - And number thee an army, H2428 like the army H2428 that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.

2 Kings 2:16 - And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong H2428 men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.

2 Kings 5:1 - Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, H2428 but he was a leper.

2 Kings 6:14 - Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: H2428 and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

2 Kings 6:15 - And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host H2428 compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

2 Kings 7:6 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: H2428 and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

2 Kings 9:5 - And when he came, behold, the captains of the host H2428 were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.

2 Kings 11:15 - But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, H2428 and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 15:20 - And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, H2428 of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

2 Kings 24:14 - And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, H2428 even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

2 Kings 24:16 - And all the men of might, H2428 even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:1 - And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, H2428 against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

2 Kings 25:5 - And the army H2428 of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army H2428 were scattered from him.

2 Kings 25:10 - And all the army H2428 of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

2 Kings 25:23 - And when all the captains of the armies, H2428 they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

2 Kings 25:26 - And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, H2428 arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.

1 Chronicles 5:18 - The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, H2428 men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

1 Chronicles 5:24 - And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, H2428 famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.

1 Chronicles 7:2 - And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might H2428 in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

1 Chronicles 7:5 - And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, H2428 reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

1 Chronicles 7:7 - And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; H2428 and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

1 Chronicles 7:9 - And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, H2428 was twenty thousand and two hundred.

1 Chronicles 7:11 - All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, H2428 were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

1 Chronicles 7:40 - All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, H2428 chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

1 Chronicles 8:40 - And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, H2428 archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.

1 Chronicles 9:13 - And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able H2428 men for the work of the service of the house of God.

1 Chronicles 10:12 - They arose, all the valiant H2428 men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

1 Chronicles 11:22 - Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant H2428 man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.

1 Chronicles 11:26 - Also the valiant men of the armies H2428 were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

1 Chronicles 12:8 - And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, H2428 and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

1 Chronicles 12:21 - And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, H2428 and were captains in the host.

1 Chronicles 12:25 - Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour H2428 for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.

1 Chronicles 12:28 - And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, H2428 and of his father's house twenty and two captains.

1 Chronicles 12:30 - And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, H2428 famous throughout the house of their fathers.

1 Chronicles 18:9 - Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host H2428 of Hadarezer king of Zobah;

1 Chronicles 20:1 - And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power H2428 of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.

1 Chronicles 26:6 - Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour. H2428

1 Chronicles 26:7 - The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong H2428 men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

1 Chronicles 26:8 - All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able H2428 men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obededom.

1 Chronicles 26:9 - And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong H2428 men, eighteen.

1 Chronicles 26:30 - And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, H2428 a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.

1 Chronicles 26:31 - Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour H2428 at Jazer of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 26:32 - And his brethren, men of valour, H2428 were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.

1 Chronicles 28:1 - And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, H2428 unto Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 9:1 - And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, H2428 and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

2 Chronicles 13:3 - And Abijah set the battle in array with an army H2428 of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour. H2428