Hebrew verb · H2498
חָלַף
chalaphkhaw-laf'
to pass
28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châlaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2498is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 26spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2498
properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change
The King James renders it: abolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout, strike through.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chalaph is rendered "to pass". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:7And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.
The first use
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
Genesis 31:7וְהֶחֱלִ֥ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twenty-eight uses are in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he changed2
- and change1
- and he has changed1
- and he may pass on1
- and it sprouts up1
- and it will pass on1
- and she pierced1
- and they may pass away1
- and you changed1
- and you will pass on1
- he will pass by1
- he will substitute it1
and 15 more, 28 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 28, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
26 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יַחֲלִ֣יפוּ2
- יַחֲלֹֽף׃2
- וְהַחֲלִ֖יפוּ1
- וְהֶחֱלִ֥ף1
- וְחָלַ֤ף1
- וְחָלָ֑ף1
- וְחָלְפָ֖ה1
- וְחָלַפְתָּ֨1
- וְ֝יַחֲלֹ֗ף1
- וַיְחַלֵּ֣ף1
- וַיְחַלֵּף֙1
- וְֽיַחֲלֹֽפוּ׃1
and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVqi3ms
- Hc/Vpw3ms2Hc/Vpw3ms
- Hc/Vqq3ms2Hc/Vqq3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVhi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
- Hc/Vhq3ms1Hc/Vhq3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Vhv2mp
- Hc/Vhw2ms1Hc/Vhw2ms
- Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
- Hc/Vqq3fs1Hc/Vqq3fs
- HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
Genesis
four uses
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
- וְהֶחֱלִ֥ףvehechelifHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he has changed
Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
- וַתַּחֲלֵ֥ףvatachalefHc/Vhw2mstagged: and you changed
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- וְהַחֲלִ֖יפוּvehachalifuconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and change
So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
- וַיְחַלֵּ֣ףvaychalefHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he changed
Leviticus
one use
He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
- יַחֲלִיפֶ֗נּוּyachalifenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will substitute it
Judges
one use
She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
- וְחָלְפָ֖הvechalfahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and she pierced
1 Samuel
one use
Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
- וְחָלַפְתָּ֨vechalaftaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will pass on
2 Samuel
one use
Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
- וַיְחַלֵּף֙vaychalefHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he changed
Job
seven uses
Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
- יַחֲלֹ֑ףyachalofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it passed over
Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.
- וְ֝יַחֲלֹ֗ףveyachalofHC/Vqu3mstagged: and he may pass on
They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
- חָ֭לְפוּchalfuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have passed on
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
- יַחֲלֹ֥ףyachalofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will pass by
For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
- יַחֲלִ֑יףyachalifverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will sprout afresh
Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
- תַּ֝חְלְפֵ֗הוּtachlefehuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will cut through him
My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’
- תַחֲלִֽיף׃tachalifverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will show newness
Psalms
four uses
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- יַחֲלֹֽף׃yachalofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it sprouts up
in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
- וְחָלָ֑ףvechalafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it sprouts up
They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.
- תַּחֲלִיפֵ֣םtachalifemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you will change them
- וְֽיַחֲלֹֽפוּ׃veyachalofuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may pass away
Song of Solomon
one use
For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
- חָלַ֖ףchalafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has passed away
Isaiah
seven uses
and the idols will vanish completely.
- יַחֲלֹֽף׃yachalofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will pass away
It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!
- וְחָלַ֤ףvechalafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will pass on
“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
- נַחֲלִֽיף׃nachalifverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will substitute
This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
- לַֽחֲלֹ֔ףlachalofpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sweep on
The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
- חָ֣לְפוּchalfuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have overstepped
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
- יַחֲלִ֣יפוּyachalifuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will renew
“Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.
- יַחֲלִ֣יפוּyachalifuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them renew
Habakkuk
one use
Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”
- חָלַ֥ףchalafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it swept on
The letters
Gematria 118· 838 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
