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Strong's #2341: Chaviylah (pronounced khav-ee-law')

probably from 2342; circular; Chavilah, the name of two or three eastern regions; also perhaps of two men:--Havilah.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

chăvı̂ylâh

Havilah = "circle"

1) a part of Eden through which flowed the river Pison (Araxes); was probably the Grecian Colchis, in the northeast corner of Asia Minor, near the Caspian Sea (noun proper locative)

2) a district in Arabia of the Ishmaelites named from the 2nd son of Cush; probably the district of Kualan, in the northwestern part of Yemen (noun proper locative)

3) a son of Cush (noun proper masculine)

4) a son of Joktan (noun proper masculine)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: probably from H2342



Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

Genesis 2:11: "the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;"
Genesis 10:7: "And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons"
Genesis 10:29: "And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan."
Genesis 25:18: "And they dwelt from Havilah from Havilah unto Shur, that is before"
1 Samuel 15:7: "smote the Amalekites from Havilah from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that"
1 Chronicles 1:9: "And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons"
1 Chronicles 1:23: "And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan."









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