1. shore, coast — A strip of land bordering a body of water, especially the sea, used of coastal regions in geographical descriptions. The noun appears exclusively in construct form (chof) with various prepositions (bare, with beth 'in/at', with lamed 'at/to'). All occurrences across Genesis 49:13, Deuteronomy 1:7, Joshua 9:1, Judges 5:17, Jeremiah 47:7, and Ezekiel 25:16 refer to the same concrete geographical feature, the seashore or coastline. The multilingual evidence is uniform: Arabic sahil, German Kueste/Gestade/Ufer, Korean haebyeon/haean, Hindi tat, Spanish costa. 7×
AR["ساحِلِ","سَاحِلِ","عَلَى-سَاحِلِ","لِ-ساحِلِ","وَ-في-ساحِلِ"]·ben["উপকূলের","এবং-উপকূলে-","তীর","তীরে","তীরের-কাছে"]·DE["[חוף]","am-Gestade","bei-der-Ufer-von","der-Kueste-von","und-in-Kueste-von"]·EN["and-in-coast-of","at-shore-of","at-the-shore-of","coast-of-","shore-of","the-coast-of"]·FR["[חוף]","côte","et-dans-coast-de","le-coast-de","à-le-shore-de","à-shore-de"]·heb["ו-ב-חוף","חוף","ל-חוף"]·HI["और-समुद्र-तट-पर","किनारे","तट","पर-तट"]·ID["dan-di-pesisir","di-pantai","pantai","pesisir","pesisir-"]·IT["[חוף]","a-il-shore-di","a-shore-di","e-in-coast-di","il-coast-di"]·jav["dados-pesisir","ing-pasisèr","lan-ing-pesisir","pesisir","pesisir-","wonten-pesisir"]·KO["그리고-해안-에","에-해안","해변","해변-에","해변의-","해안을"]·PT["costa-de","costa-do","e-na-costa-de","em-costa-de","à-praia-de"]·RU["и-на-берегу","побережье","побережья","у-берега"]·ES["a-costa-de","costa-de","junto-a-costa-de","la-costa-de","y-en-costa-de"]·SW["kwa-pweza","pwani-ya","pweza","ufuoni-mwa","umbile"]·TR["için-kıyısı","kıyısı","kıyısına","kıyısında","kıyısının","ve-kıyısında-"]·urd["اور-ساحل-پر","ساحل","ساحل-","ساحل-پر"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חוֹף n.[m.] shore, coast (as surrounding, enclosing)—ח׳ only cstr. Gn 49:13(×2) + 5 times:—shore of sea ח׳ הַיָּם Dt 1:7 Jos 9:1 (both D), Ju 5:17; Je 47:7; Ez 25:16; ח׳ יַמִּים Gn 49:13 (poem); ח׳ אֳנִיּוֹת v 13 the shore of ships, i.e. to which ships come.