khale
or (shortened) chel {khale}; a collateral form of 2428; an
army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment:--army, bulwark,
host, + poor, rampart, trench, wall.
see Hebrew for [02428]
And they came [0935] and besieged [06696] him in Abel [059] of Beth–maachah [01038], and they cast up [08210] a bank [05550] against the city [05892], and it stood [05975] in the trench [02426]: and all the people [05971] that were with Joab [03097] battered [07843] the wall [02346], to throw it down [05307].in the trench: or, against the outmost wallbattered: Heb. marred to throw down