Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #2522 - חָלַשׁ chalash (to be weak or prostrate)


Original Word:חָלַשׁ
Transliteration: chalash
Definition:to be weak or prostrate
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(khaw-lash')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

discomfit, waste away, weaken

A primitive root; to prostrate; by implication, to overthrow, decay -- discomfit, waste away, weaken.


Englishman's Concordance

1) to be weak, be prostrate
1a) (Qal) to be prostrate
2) to weaken, disable, prostrate
2a) (Qal) to disable, prostrate
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 671

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[חָלַשׁ] verb 1.be weak, prostrate.

2 (si vera lectio) weaken, disable, prostrate (Aramaic חֲלַשׁbe weak; , חַלָּשׁweak, as in Hebrew; Arabic poor (Frey)) —

QalImperfectוַיַּחֲלשׁExodus 17:13, וַיֶּחֱלָ֑שׁJob 14:10; ParticipleחוֺלֵשׁIsaiah 14:12;

1׳וגבר ימות ויחJob 14:10but man dieth and is prostrate.

2disable, prostrate, followed by accusative of person Exodus 17:13 (E; point as

Hiph`il ?); followed by עַל person (strangely) Isaiah 14:12.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2522. חָלַשׁ (chalash) — 3 Occurrences

Exodus 17:13
HEB: וַיַּחֲלֹ֧שׁ יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ אֶת־
NAS: So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek
KJV: And Joshua discomfited Amalek
INT:overwhelmed Joshua Amalek

Job 14:10
HEB:וְגֶ֣בֶר יָ֭מוּת וַֽיֶּחֱלָ֑שׁ וַיִּגְוַ֖ע אָדָ֣ם
NAS: dies and lies prostrate. Man
KJV: dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man
INT: man dies and lies expires Man

Isaiah 14:12
HEB:נִגְדַּ֣עְתָּ לָאָ֔רֶץ חוֹלֵ֖שׁ עַל־ גּוֹיִֽם׃
NAS: to the earth, You who have weakened the nations!
KJV: to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
INT: have been cut to the earth have weakened and the nations

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