חָלַףchâlaph
חָלַף: pass on or away, pass through, (mostly in poetry)
Pronunciation: khaw-laf' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2498
Meanings
Qal
1.
a. pass on quickly (1 Samuel 10:3; Isaiah 8:8; Isaiah 21:1)
b. pass away, (vanish) (Job 9:26; Song of Solomon 2:11; Psalms 102:27)
2. of grass, come on anew, i. e. sprout again (compare Hiph`il 2) (Psalms 90:5; Psalms 90:6)
3.
a. pass through, i.e. pierce (Judges 5:26; Job 20:24)
b. overstep, transgress (Isaiah 24:5)
Pi`el: (cause to pass) change (Genesis 41:14; 2 Samuel 12:20)
Hiph`il
1. change (transitive) garments (Genesis 35:2; Psalms 102:27; Genesis 31:7)
2. shew newness, of tree, putting forth fresh shoots (Job 14:7; Job 29:20)
: pass, (over)
Pe`al: pass over (Daniel 4:13; Daniel 4:20; Daniel 4:22)
Same root
- חֲלוֹףchălôwph · H2475properly, surviving; by implication (collectively) orphans
- חֲלִיפָהchălîyphâh · H2487alternation
- חֲלַףchălaph · H2499to pass on (of time)
- חֵלֶףchêleph · H2500properly, exchange; hence (as preposition) instead of
- מַחֲלָףmachălâph · H4252a (sacrificial) knife (as gliding through the flesh)
- מַחְלָפָהmachlâphâh · H4253a ringlet of hair (as gliding over each other)
Where it appears
Appears 28 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:7 but he has cheated me, changing my wages ten times. But God has not allowed him to do me any harm.
- Genesis 31:41 Yes, for twenty years I slaved in your house! I worked for fourteen years earning your two daughters, and then six more years for your flock. And you changed my wages ten times!
- Genesis 35:2 So Jacob told everyone in his household, “Get rid of all your pagan idols, purify yourselves, and put on clean clothing.
- Genesis 41:14 Pharaoh sent for Joseph at once, and he was quickly brought from the prison. After he shaved and changed his clothes, he went in and stood before Pharaoh.
- Leviticus 27:10 You may not exchange or substitute it for another animal—neither a good animal for a bad one nor a bad animal for a good one. But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and its substitute will be considered holy.
- Judges 5:26 Then with her left hand she reached for a tent peg, and with her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera with the hammer, crushing his head. With a shattering blow, she pierced his temples.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).