Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2500
חֵלֶף
chelephklay'-lef
for
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chêleph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2500is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2500
properly, exchange; hence (as preposition) instead of
The King James renders it: [idiom] for.
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
cheleph is rendered "for". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 18:21Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 18:21חֵ֤לֶף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in return for2
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 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- חֵ֤לֶף1
- חֵ֥לֶף1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
Numbers
two uses
Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.
- חֵ֤לֶףchelefnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in return for
And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.
- חֵ֥לֶףchelefnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in return for
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.