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חָלַף H2498

H2498 is the Hebrew word חָלַף, transliterated châlaph and said khaw-laf'. The King James Version most often renders it change.

Word: חָלַףTransliteration: châlaphSaid: khaw-laf'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 24 verses

What it means

properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change.

Where it comes from

a primitive root.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 19 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

change 4×changed 2×himself and changed 2×pass 2×renew 2×hast changed 1×alter 1×stricken through 1×go on 1×passed 1×passeth on 1×passed away 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: abolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout, strike through.

Verses using חָלַף

All 24 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 31:7 · KJV

And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

Genesis 31:41 · KJV

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 35:2 · KJV

Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

Genesis 41:14 · KJV

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

Leviticus 27:10 · KJV

He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

Judges 5:26 · KJV

She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

1 Samuel 10:3 · KJV

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

2 Samuel 12:20 · KJV

Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.

Job 4:15 · KJV

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

Job 9:11 · KJV

Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

Job 9:26 · KJV

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Job 11:10 · KJV

If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

Job 14:7 · KJV

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

Job 29:20 · KJV

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

Psalm 90:6 · KJV

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

Psalm 102:26 · KJV

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

Song of Solomon 2:11 · KJV

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

Isaiah 8:8 · KJV

And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:10 · KJV

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

Isaiah 21:1 · KJV

The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

Isaiah 24:5 · KJV

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 40:31 · KJV

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 41:1 · KJV

Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

Habakkuk 1:11 · KJV

Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

Common questions

What does Strong's H2498 mean?

H2498 is the Hebrew word חָלַף (châlaph), meaning properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change.

How is H2498 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it change (4 times), changed (2 times), himself and changed (2 times), pass (2 times), renew (2 times), among others.

How many times does H2498 appear in the Bible?

חָלַף (châlaph) is tagged in 24 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H2498 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.

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