חָלַף chalaph

Hebrew word for “to pass” · Strong’s H2498 · used 28 times in 27 verses

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Meaning

1) to pass on or away, pass through, pass by, go through, grow up, change, to go on from;

How it is translated

Glosses given for chalaph in context, with how often each is used:

• changed 3
• will substitute 2
• will pass on 2
• has changed 1
• change 1
• pierced 1
• passed over 1
• may pass on 1
• have passed on 1
• will pass by 1
• will sprout afresh 1
• will cut through 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 31 (2), Job 9 (2), Psalms 90 (2), Genesis 35 (1), Genesis 41 (1), Leviticus 27 (1), Judges 5 (1), 1 Samuel 10 (1), 2 Samuel 12 (1), Job 4 (1)

Forms

• יחלף 4
• ויחלף 3
• חלפו 2
• וחלף 2
• חלף 2
• יחליפו 2
• והחלף 1
• ותחלף 1
• והחליפו 1
• יחליפנו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chalaph more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שִׂמְלָה simlah “mantle” 3
• עָבַר avar “to pass” 5
• מֹנֶה moneh “time” 2
• מַשְׂכֹּרֶת maskoret “wage” 2
• כֹּחַ koach “strength” 3
• נֶשֶׁר nesher “eagle” 2
• עִמָּדִי immad “with me” 2
• קֶשֶׁת qeshet “bow” 2
• רוּץ ruts “to run” 2
• אָז az “then” 2
• עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 2
• אִם im “if” 3

Key verses

The verses using chalaph that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 31:7 — And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
• 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 your garments:
• 1 Samuel 10:3 — Then shalt thou go on 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…
• Job 11:10 — If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
• 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.
• 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:
• Isaiah 2:18 — And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
• Isaiah 8:8 — And he shall pass 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…
• Isaiah 21:1 — The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; 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 the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
• Isaiah 40:31 — But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,…
• Isaiah 41:1 — Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.