חנות

Borrowed from Aramaic חָנוּתָא‎ (ḥānūṯā).

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ħaːˈnuːθ/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /χaˈnut/

חֲנוּת or חָנוּת • (khanút or ḥānūṯ) f (plural indefinite חנויות \ חֲנֻיּוֹת‎, singular construct חֲנוּת־, plural construct חנויות \ חֲנֻיּוֹת־‎)

1. (Biblical Hebrew) cell, vaulted chamber
2. store, a shop

• This noun frequently appears in its singular construct form, with a following noun to indicate the kind of store; hence, for example, חנות ספרים (khanút s'farím, “lit. store-of books, i.e. bookstore”).

• שׁוּק‎ (shuk, “market”)

• H2588 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 238
• Wagner, Max (1966) Die lexikalischen und grammatikalischen Aramaismen im alttestamentlichen Hebräisch (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 96) (in German), Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, →ISBN, page 56