Lexicon / H2772
חֹרֹנִי
cho.ro.ni
  • Horonite
  • place of a hole
  • hollow

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: Horonite

Someone descended from Horon(?), first mentioned at Neh.2.10

§ Horonite = "native of Horonaim"

1) an inhabitant of Horonaim in Moab

1a) the designation of Sanballat, the opponent of Nehemiah

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: place of a hole; hollow

בֵּית חוֹרֹן הַחֹרֹנִי n.pr.loc adj.gent place of a hole hollow . two cities in Ephraim, lower & upper B.H. (or(?), perh. fr. a wady betw. the two, or near by);—cf.. only of Sanballat