Hebrew word · H2432
חִילֵן
chilez
Hilen
A place name in the hill country of Judah. It is listed with Goshen and Giloh in Joshua 15:51.
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
Hilen = "place of caves"
a city of Judah allotted to the priests
Another name of cho.lon (חֹלוֹן "Holon" H2473G)
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
From the study of 1 Chronicles 6:58
- Range of meaning
A place name in the hill country of Judah. It is listed with Goshen and Giloh in Joshua 15:51.
- Against the English
KJV, WEB, YLT, BSB and NIV have 'Hilen'. A few translations follow Joshua and put 'Holon', or note it in the margin.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Joshua 15:51 and 21:15 have Holon. 1 Chronicles 6:58 (Hebrew 6:43) has Hilen or Hilez, depending on the manuscript. The site has not been identified with confidence.
Where it appears
1 Chronicles · 1
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1 Chronicles 6:58 חִילֵז֙ Hilez
Hilen, Debir,
Here: A town in the hill country of Judah, called Holon in Joshua 15:51 and 21:15. The Leningrad Codex spells it Hilez, but the lexicon entry and most translations use Hilen. Nobody knows exactly where it was.
Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.