Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4253
מַחְלָפָה
machlaphahmakh-law-faw'
lock
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: machlâphâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4253is 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) · H4253
a ringlet of hair (as gliding over each other)
The King James renders it: lock.
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
machlaphah is rendered "lock". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 16:13Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”
Judges 16:13מַחְלְפ֥וֹת
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 Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- plaits of2
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחְתָּה | machtah | censer | Uses22 |
| מַחְמָד | machmad | desire | Uses13 |
| מַחְסוֹר | machsor | need | Uses13 |
| מַחְבֶּרֶת | machbereth | joining | Uses8 |
| מַחְשָׁךְ | machshak | darkness | Uses7 |
| מַחְצֵב | machtseb | hewing | Uses3 |
| מַחְלִי | Machli | Mahlite | Uses2 |
| מַחְתֶּרֶת | machtereth | breaking | Uses2 |
| מַחְלֻי | machluy | suffering | Uses1 |
| מַחְמֻד | machmud | desirable | Uses1 |
| מַחְמָל | machmal | compassion | Uses1 |
| מַחְסוֹם | machsom | muzzle | Uses1 |
and 2 more on 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
- מַחְלְפ֥וֹת1
- מַחְלְפ֣וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfpc
Judges
two uses
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”
- מַחְלְפ֥וֹתmachlefotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: plaits of
And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.
- מַחְלְפ֣וֹתmachlefotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: plaits of
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.