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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #2498 - חָלַף
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2165) plh (ההלפ HhLP) AC: Pass CO: ? AB: ?: A passing on, away or through. [from: lh- passing through]
V) plh (ההלפ HhLP) - I. Through:To pass through, by or over something. [Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Change:To go or pass through one thing to another, an exchange. KJV (32): (vf: Paal, Piel) change, pass, renew, through, grow, abolish, sprout, alter, cut, go, over - Strongs: H2498 (חָלַף), H2499 (חֲלַף)
Nm) plh (ההלפ HhLP) - For: An exchange for something else. KJV (2): for - Strongs: H2500 (חֵלֶף)
am) plhm (מההלפ MHhLP) - Knife: A tool for passing through. KJV (1): knife - Strongs: H4252 (מַחֲלָף)
af1) eplhm (מההלפה MHhLPH) - Braids: In the sense of passing through each other. KJV (2): lock - Strongs: H4253 (מַחֲלָפָה)
bf1) epilh (ההליפה HhLYPH) - Change: In the sense of passing through one thing to another. KJV (12): change, course - Strongs: H2487 (חֲלִיפָה)
cm) pflh (ההלופ HhLWP) - Destruction: In the sense of passing away. KJV (1): destruction - Strongs: H2475 (חֲלוֹף)
Jeff Brenner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
חָלַף fut. יַחֲלֹף poet. for עָבַר [“to slip, to glide, spoken of the swift motion of any thing smooth, the primary idea being that of smoothness and slipperiness, as of fat things; compare חָלַב also חָלַד, חָלַט. Gr. ἀ̓λείφω; and so Germ. fchlüpfen, Eng. to slip, with the sibilant prefixed”].
(1) to pass by, Job 4:15, 9:26 Song of Solomon 2:11 hence to pass on, 1 Samuel 10:3 to perish, to come to nothing, Isaiah 2:18 to pass beyond, transgress (a law), 24:5.
(2) to pass through, whence causat. to pierce through, Judges 5:26; Job 20:24.
(3) to come on against any one hostilely, Job 9:11, 11:10 of the wind, Isaiah 21:1 of a river, Isaiah 8:8.
(4) to come on or up; hence to revive or flourish as a plant, Psalms 90:5, Psalms 90:6. Figuratively, Habakkuk 1:11, אָז חָלַף רוּחַ “then his spirit revives.” (Syr. Aph., Arab. خلف Conj. IV. id.)
[“(5) to be changed, as if pass. of Pi. and Hiph. No. 1, Psalms 102:27.”]
Piel, to change (used of garments), Genesis 41:14; 2 Samuel 12:20. (Syr. Pael id.)
Hiphil
(1) to change, to interchange, to alter, Genesis 35:2; Leviticus 27:10; Psalms 102:27.
(2) to change, Genesis 31:7, 41 Genesis 31:41. [In Thes. 1 and 2, are put together.]
(3) causat. of Kal No. 4, to cause to revive, or sprout forth (as a tree), Isaiah 9:9 and intrans. to revive (prop. to produce new buds, or leaves), Job 14:7 whence, with the addition of בֹּחַ, to gain new strength, to renew one’s strength, Isaiah 40:31 41.1; and with the ellipsis of that word, Job 29:20.
Derivatives, חֵלֶף, חֲלוֹף, חֲלִיפָח, מַחְלָף, מַחְלָפוֹת.
the Third Week after Epiphany