[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%9A-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ה](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/he/)‎ / הֶפֶךְ‎

# הֶפֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2016

**the contrary** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

the contrary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2016/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֶ֫פֶךְ: n.m. the contrary, contrariness, perversity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2016/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. the contrary, contrariness, perversity;—abs. ה׳ Ez 16:34; הֶ֑פֶךְ v 34; sf. הַפְכְּכֶם Is 29:16 (v. Baer);— the contrary, opposite thing וַיְהִי־בָךְ הֶפֶךְ מִן־הַנָּשִׁים Ez 16:34 & there hath occurred in thee the contrary from other women; v 34 וַתְּהִי לְהֶ֑פֶךְ so thou hast become the contrary. הַפְכְּכֶם Is 29:16 Oh, your perversity!

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: contrariness (2); perversity (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 29:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.16/#tree)

הַ֨פְכְּכֶ֔ם אִם־כְּחֹ֥מֶר הַיֹּצֵ֖ר יֵֽחָשֵׁ֑ב כִּֽי־יֹאמַ֨ר מַעֲשֶׂ֤ה לְעֹשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ לֹ֣א עָשָׂ֔נִי וְיֵ֛צֶר אָמַ֥ר לְיוֹצְר֖וֹ לֹ֥א הֵבִֽין׃

*Word for word:* perversity your (if)? like clay the potter will.he.be.regarded (cmp) it.will.say a.thing.made to the.\[one who\].made.it not he made.me and a.pot it.said to potter its not he.has.understood

*JPS 1917:* O your perversity! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it: 'He made me not'; or the thing framed say of him that framed it: 'He hath no understanding?'

[Ezekiel 16:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.34/#tree)

וַיְהִי־בָ֨ךְ הֵ֤פֶךְ מִן־הַנָּשִׁים֙ בְּתַזְנוּתַ֔יִךְ וְאַחֲרַ֖יִךְ לֹ֣א זוּנָּ֑ה וּבְתִתֵּ֣ךְ אֶתְנָ֗ן וְאֶתְנַ֛ן לֹ֥א נִתַּן־לָ֖ךְ וַתְּהִ֥י לְהֶֽפֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in you contrariness from the women in prostitution(s) your and after you not it.was.approached.for.prostitution and because gave you \[the\].hire and.\[the\] hire not it.was.given to you and you.became (into) contrariness

*JPS 1917:* And the contrary is in thee from other women, in that thou didst solicit to harlotry, and wast not solicited; and in that thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, thus thou art contrary.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2016.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2016/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).