Strong's #2426: cheyl (pronounced khale)

or (shortened) chel {khale}; a collateral form of 2428; an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment:--army, bulwark, host, + poor, rampart, trench, wall.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chêyl / chêl

1) rampart, fortress, wall

1a) rampart

1b) fortress

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: a collateral form of H2428

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

2 Samuel 20:15: "a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that"
1 Kings 21:23: "shall eat by the wall of Jezreel."
2 Kings 18:17: "king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem."
Psalms 122:7: "Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces."
Isaiah 26:1: "salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks."
Lamentations 2:8: "withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished"
Obadiah 1:20: "And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto"
Nahum 3:8: "among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?"