Châlaph — H2498

Definition

verb

properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change

1. to pass on or away, pass through, pass by, go through, grow up, change, to go on from
1. (Qal)
1. to pass on quickly
2. to pass away (vanish)
3. to come on anew, sprout again (of grass)
4. to pass through
5. to overstep, transgress
2. (Piel) to cause to pass, change
3. (Hiph)
1. to change, substitute, alter, change for better, renew
2. to show newness (of tree)

Usually translated as

change, pass, renew, abolish, alter, sprout, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, strike through

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• allássō (G236)
• apérchomai (G565)
• aphairéō (G851)
• diérchomai (G1330)
• helíssō (G1667)
• epérchomai (G1904)
• katastréphō (G2690)
• metabállō (G3328)
• paralogízomai (G3884)
• parérchomai (G3928)

Occurrences

Châlaph occurs 28 times in 27 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4), Leviticus (1), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (1), Job (7), Psalms (3), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (7), Habakkuk (1)

• Genesis 31:7 — And your father hath deceived me, and changed (וְהֶחֱלִ֥ף) my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
• Genesis 31:41 — Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed (וַתַּחֲלֵ֥ף) my wages ten times.
• Genesis 35:2 — Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change (וְהַחֲלִ֖יפוּ) your garments:
• Genesis 41:14 — Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed (וַיְחַלֵּ֣ף) his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
• Leviticus 27:10 — He shall not alter (יַחֲלִיפֶ֗נּוּ) it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
• Judges 5:26 — She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through (וְחָלְפָ֖ה) his temples.
• 1 Samuel 10:3 — Then shalt thou go on (וְחָלַפְתָּ֨) forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
• 2 Samuel 12:20 — Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed (וַיְחַלֵּף֙) his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
• Job 4:15 — Then a spirit passed (יַחֲלֹ֑ף) before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
• Job 9:11 — Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on (וְ֝יַחֲלֹ֗ף) also, but I perceive him not.
• Job 9:26 — They are passed away (חָ֭לְפוּ) as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
• Job 11:10 — If he cut off (יַחֲלֹ֥ף), and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
• Job 14:7 — For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout (יַחֲלִ֑יף) again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
• Job 20:24 — He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through (תַּ֝חְלְפֵ֗הוּ).
• Job 29:20 — My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed (תַחֲלִֽיף) in my hand.
• Psalms 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up (יַחֲלֹֽף).
• Psalms 90:6 — In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up (וְחָלָ֑ף); in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
• Psalms 102:26 — They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change (תַּחֲלִיפֵ֣ם) them, and they shall be changed:
• Psalms 102:26 — They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed (וְֽיַחֲלֹֽפוּ):
• Song of Songs 2:11 — For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over (חָלַ֖ף) and gone;
• Isaiah 2:18 — And the idols he shall utterly abolish (יַחֲלֹֽף).
• Isaiah 8:8 — And he shall pass (וְחָלַ֤ף) through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
• Isaiah 9:10 — The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change (נַחֲלִֽיף) them into cedars.
• Isaiah 21:1 — The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through (לַֽחֲלֹ֔ף); so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
• Isaiah 24:5 — The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed (חָ֣לְפוּ) the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
• Isaiah 40:31 — But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew (יַחֲלִ֣יפוּ) their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
• Isaiah 41:1 — Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew (יַחֲלִ֣יפוּ) their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
• Habakkuk 1:11 — Then shall his mind change (חָלַ֥ף), and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.