Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2465 - חֶלֶד cheled (duration)

Original Word:	חֶלֶד
Transliteration:	cheled
Definition:	duration, world
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(kheh'-led)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

age, short time, world

From an unused root apparently meaning to glide swiftly; life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence, the world (as transient) -- age, short time, world.

Englishman's Concordance

1) age, duration of life, the world
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root apparently meaning to glide swiftly
Same Word by TWOT Number: 653a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חֶ֫לֶדnoun [masculine]^{Job 11:17}duration, world (=αιὤν) (Arabic

perpetual duration, eternity) — absolute ׳חPsalm 17:14; חָ֑לֶדJob 11:17 2t. + Isaiah 38:11 Che De, followed by Manuscript Babylonian etc. (Baer חָ֑דֶל); suffix חֶלְדִּיPsalm 39:6;=duration of lifeJob 11:17; Psalm 39:6 ("" יָמַי), זְכֹר אֲנִימֶהחָֿ֑לֶדPsalm 89:48of what duration I am Dr^{§ 189. 2}, or (אדני for אני) what is life (?) Hi Ew Now and others; world (=αιὤν, not Κόσμος) Psalm 17:14; Psalm 49:2 (׳ישׁבי ח "" כלעֿמים), compare Isaiah 38:11 (see above; "" אֶרֶץ הַחַיִּים).

II. חלד (√ of following; compare Late Hebrew חלדdig, or hollow out, Aramaic creep, crawl).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2465. חֶ֫לֶד (cheled) — 5 Occurrences

Job 11:17
HEB:וּֽ֭מִצָּהֳרַיִם יָק֣וּם חָ֑לֶד תָּ֝עֻ֗פָה כַּבֹּ֥קֶר
NAS:Your life would be brighter than
KJV:And [thine] age shall be clearer
INT: noonday would be brighter your life forth the morning

Psalm 17:14
HEB:יְהוָ֡ה מִֽמְתִ֬ים מֵחֶ֗לֶד חֶלְקָ֥ם בַּֽחַיִּים֮
NAS: From men of the world, whose portion
KJV: from men of the world, [which have] their portion
INT: LORD men of the world portion in life

Psalm 39:5
HEB:נָ֘תַ֤תָּה יָמַ֗י וְחֶלְדִּ֣י כְאַ֣יִן נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ
NAS: [as] handbreadths, And my lifetime as nothing
KJV: [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every
INT: have made my days and my lifetime nothing your sight

Psalm 49:1
HEB:כָּל־ יֹ֥שְׁבֵי חָֽלֶד׃
NAS: all inhabitants of the world,
KJV: all [ye] inhabitants of the world:
INT: all inhabitants of the world

Psalm 89:47
HEB:אֲנִ֥י מֶה־ חָ֑לֶד עַל־ מַה־
NAS: what my span of life is; For what
KJV: Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made
INT: I what my span is For what

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