cho.mah denotes a built enclosure or defensive barrier, and can describe people or waters as wall-like protection.

The term most often denotes a built city enclosure or defensive structure, whether constructed, occupied, breached, or torn down. A smaller set of verses uses it for a protective comparison involving people and for waters standing as barriers on either side.

1. Built city enclosure or defensive structure · dominant

   The noun identifies a constructed or fortified boundary around a city or site: in 1 Kings 3:1 the APB renders the clause about completing "the wall around Jerusalem," while 2 Chronicles 32:5 describes rebuilding broken sections and raising towers upon it. It is also the object of attack or military action: 2 Kings 14:13 renders a breach in Jerusalem's wall, and Ezekiel 26:9 describes blows directed against walls.

   1 Kings 3:12 Chronicles 32:52 Kings 14:13Ezekiel 26:9Ezekiel 42:202 Samuel 20:15
2. Protective comparison for people · rare

   In 1 Samuel 25:16, the singular noun is used of people who protected the speakers and their flock "both night and day"; the APB renders the clause, "They were a wall to us."

   1 Samuel 25:16
3. Water as a flanking barrier · rare

   In Exodus 14:22 and Exodus 14:29, the singular noun describes the waters standing on Israel's right and left as they pass through the sea on dry ground. The APB renders the waters as "a wall" on both sides.

   Exodus 14:22Exodus 14:29

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly renders the noun as "wall" or "walls" in construction, siege, and destruction scenes. It also renders the protective comparison in 1 Samuel 25:16 and the flanking waters in Exodus 14:22 as "wall".