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STRONGS NUMBER H2351
Transliteration: chuts
Phonetic Spelling: (khoots)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: the outside, a street
Meaning: separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors
Word Summary
chuts: the outside, a street
Original Word: חוּץTransliteration: chuts
Phonetic Spelling: (khoots)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: the outside, a street
Meaning: separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors
Strong's Concordance
abroad, field, forth, highway, more, outside street, without Or (shortened) chuts {khoots}; (both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. Outside, outdoors -- abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2351. chuts
חוּץ noun [masculine] the outside, sometimes, especially in plural, specifically a street, never with suffix in singular, with ָ ה locative חֻ֫צָה ח֫וּצָה,, plural חֻצוֺת חוּצוֺת,, with suffix חוּצֹתָיו etc., Isaiah 15:3 etc.; —
1 the outside, of a house, tent, city, camp, etc., often used, especially with prepositions, to express the adverb idea of outside, abroad (Aramaic synonym, except in sense 2a, is בַּר, ):
a. as accusative after verb of motion Deuteronomy 23:13 חוּץ יָצָא to go forth outside (that is, a camp), 23:14 (as adverb accusative) חוּץ בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ outside, הַחוּץ הוֺצִיא to bring forth outside (a house or chamber) Judges 19:25; 2 Samuel 13:18 compare Nehemiah 13:8; Judges 12:9b מִןהַֿחוּץ לְבָנָיו הֵבִיא בָּנוֺת from outside, from abroad, 2 Kings 4:3 מִןהַֿחוּץ כֵּלִים שַׁאֲלִילָֿךְ from outside (opposed to בַּבַּיִת 4:2); as Genitive Leviticus 18:9 חוּץ מוֺלֶדֶת one born abroad (i.e. by another father or mother, of a half-sister: opposed to בַּיִת מוֺלֶדֶת) Ezekiel 47:2 (twice in verse). With ָ ה locative חוּצָה, after a verb of motion Exodus 12:46 חוּצָה ֗֗֗ מִןהַֿבַּיִת, Proverbs 5:16; 2 Chronicles 29:16, 33:15 לָעִיר חוּצָה outside of the city, Numbers 35:4 וָחוּצָה הָעִיר מִקִּיר from the wall of the city and outwards; = on the outside, without 1 Kings 6:6; Isaiah 33:7 חוּצָה צָֽעֲקוּ cry without, 2 Chronicles 24:8: so הַחוּצָה Genesis 15:5 הח אֹתוֺ ׳וַיּוֺצֵא and brought him outside, 19:17; 24:29; Joshua 2:19 +, 1 Kings 8:8 הַחוּצָה יֵרָאוּ לֹא were not seen towards the outside, Deuteronomy 25:5 זָר לְאִישׁ הַחוּצָה הַמֵּת אֵשֶׁת תִהְיֶה לֹאi.e. shall not be married into another family, compare Judges 12:9 a.
b. with preps.: a. אלהֿחוץ towards the outside Ezekiel 41:9, 34:21 pleonastic אלהֿחוצה. b. בחוץ Genesis 9:22 outside (opposed to אָהֳלֹה בְּתוֺךְ 9:21), 24:31 בַּחוץ תַעֲמֹד לָמָּה, Deuteronomy 24:11; Exodus 21:19 בחוץ והתהלך יקום אם (after leaving a sick couch), 2 Kings 10:24; Psalm 31:12; Ezekiel 7:15 (opposed to מִבַּיִת), Hosea 7:1 +. c. לחוץ Psalm 41:7 לחוץ יצא; = on the outside Ezekiel 41:17; 42:7, לַחוּצָה2 Chronicles 32:5 towards the outside. d. מִחוּץ on (מִן
3c) the outside Ezekiel 40:19; 46:2, וּמִחוּץ מִבַיִת within and without (of an ark, building, etc.) Genesis 6:14; Exodus 25:11 = 37:2; 1 Kings 7:9; Deuteronomy 32:25 תְּשַׁכֶּלחֶֿרֶב מחוץ (opposed to אֵימָה יּמֵחֲדָרִים), Lamentations 1:20 (compare Ezekiel 7:15 above b); so מֵהַחוּץ 41:25. לְ מִחוּץ on the outside of, Genesis 19:16 לָעִיר מִחוּץ וַיַּנִּיחֵהוּ, 24:11; Exodus 26:35; 37:7 (twice in verse); Leviticus 8:17; 14:8; Numbers 35:5; Joshua 6:23; Jeremiah 21:4 +, even after a verb of motion 1 Kings 21:13 לְעִיר מִחוּץ וַיּוֺצִיאוּהוּ, 2 Kings 23:6, though in this case מחוץל אל is more common, Leviticus 4:12, 21 למחנה מחוץ אל, 6:4; 10:4; 14:40-41, + often P, Deuteronomy 23:11. e. מִחוּצָה Ezekiel 40:40 on the outside, לְ מִחוּצָה 40:44. f. (late) מִן חוּץ outside of, Ecclesiastes 2:25 who can eat, and who enjoy, מִמֶּנִּיִ חוּץ outside of me, i.e. except me? (but read rather, with ᵑ6 ᵐ5 De Now and others, מִמֶּנּוּ חוּץ apart from, without him, i.e. God). (So Late Hebrew מִן חוּץ except, without, see De2:25. compare The Aramaic synonym מִן בַּר except Exodus 20:3 ᵑ7; apart from, without Isaiah 36:10 ᵑ7; Syriac id.)
2 Of a definite locality, namely
a. that which is outside the houses of a town, i.e. a street Isaiah 51:23 לַעֹבְרִים כַּחוּץ, Jeremiah 37:21 הָאֹפִים חוּץ the Bakers' street, Proverbs 1:20 כַּחוּץ, ("" כָּֽרְחֹבוֺת: so 7:12; 22:13; Jeremiah 9:20); often in plural, as אַשְׁקְלֹון חוּצֹת the streets of Ashkelon 2 Samuel 1:20, ׳ח ירושׁלם Jeremiah 5:1; 7:17, 34 +? Jeremiah; 1 Kings 20:34 בְּדַמֶּשֶׂק תָּשִׂיםלְֿךָ וְחֻצוֺת and streets (i.e. bazaars) shalt thou make thee in D., as my father made in Samaria (a concession involving the right of trading), Amos 5:16; Isaiah 15:3; 24:11 (as scene of mourning), 5:25; Jeremiah 51:4; Ezekiel 11:6; 28:23 ( as filled with corpses of slain), כָּלחֿוּצוֺת בְּראֹשׁ i.e. in conspicuous places, Nahum 3:10; Lamentations 2:19; 4:1; Isaiah 51:20, חוּצוֺת טִיט mire of streets Zechariah 10:5 (trampled on by warriors), in simile, of foes trodden under foot, Psalm 18:43; Micah 7:10 ( so ח ׳כְּחֹמֶר Isaiah 10:6), metaphor of cheapness and abundance Zechariah 9:3.
b. more Generally, that which is outside enclosed cities, the open country, Job 18:17 עַלמְּֿנֵיחֿוּץ לוֺ שֵׁם וְלאֹ (see De), compare Proverbs 24:27; in the plural Job 5:10 חוּצוֺת פְנֵי עַל מַיִם וְשֹׁלֵחַ, Proverbs 8:26; Psalm 144:13 (as place where flocks abound).