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Strong's #2487 - חֲלִיפָה
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- Strong
- a change, change (of garments), replacement
- change (of raiment)
- relays
- relief (from death)
- changing, varying (course of life)
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2165) plh (ההלפ HhLP) AC: Pass CO: ? AB: ?: A passing on, away or through. [from: lh- passing through]
V) plh (ההלפ HhLP) - I. Through:To pass through, by or over something. [Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Change:To go or pass through one thing to another, an exchange. KJV (32): (vf: Paal, Piel) change, pass, renew, through, grow, abolish, sprout, alter, cut, go, over - Strongs: H2498 (חָלַף), H2499 (חֲלַף)
Nm) plh (ההלפ HhLP) - For: An exchange for something else. KJV (2): for - Strongs: H2500 (חֵלֶף)
am) plhm (מההלפ MHhLP) - Knife: A tool for passing through. KJV (1): knife - Strongs: H4252 (מַחֲלָף)
af1) eplhm (מההלפה MHhLPH) - Braids: In the sense of passing through each other. KJV (2): lock - Strongs: H4253 (מַחֲלָפָה)
bf1) epilh (ההליפה HhLYPH) - Change: In the sense of passing through one thing to another. KJV (12): change, course - Strongs: H2487 (חֲלִיפָה)
cm) pflh (ההלופ HhLWP) - Destruction: In the sense of passing away. KJV (1): destruction - Strongs: H2475 (חֲלוֹף)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 change of raiment שׂמלת׳ח Genesis 45:22 (twice in verse), elsewhere בגדים׳ח Judges 14:12,13; 2 Kings 5:5,22,23; so without בגדים Judges 14:19.
2 relays 1 Kings 5:28; compare וצבא׳ח Job 10:17 (Di).
3 revival after death, under figure of relief from military service Job 14:14.
4 changing, varying, of course of life אֲשֶׁר אֵין חֲלִיפוֺת לָ֑מוֺ Psalm 55:20 of the wicked, with whom are no changings, i.e. they do evil incessantly, steadily ("" ולא יָרְאוּ אלהים) so Kmp Hu De Sch and others; but the expression is peculiar and obscure; Calv vicissitudes; Hengst discharges; text perhaps corrupt.
חֲלִיפָה f. (from the root חָלַף) change. 2 Kings 5:5, עֶשֶׂר חֲלִיפוֹת בְּגָדִים “ten changes of raiment,” that is, ten sets of garments, so that the whole might be changed ten times. -2 Ki. 5:2223 ; Judges 14:12, 13 Judges 14:13; Genesis 45:22 also without בְּגָדִים Judges 14:19. Specially used of soldiers keeping guard by turns, whence metaph. Job 14:14, “all the days of my warfare I will wait עַד־בּוֹא חֲלִיפָתִי until others take my place,” (lit. till my exchanging come:) the miserable condition in Orcus being compared to the hardships of a soldier on watch. [I know not whence this strange piece of theology originated; certainly such ideas form no part of God’s revealed truth.] Elsewhere used of a fresh band succeeding in the stead of those who are wearied; Job 10:17, חֲלִיפוֹת וְצָבָא עִמִּי by ἓν διὰ δυοῖν: “changes and hosts are against me,” i.e. hosts fight against me continuously succeeding one another. Used also of similar changes of workmen, 1 Ki. 5:28, adv. “in alternate courses.”
