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# חֶלְאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2457

**rust** — used 5 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

rust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2457/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶלְאָה: n.f. rust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2457/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. rust (perhaps as filth v. supr.)—חֶלְאָתָהּ Ez 24:6, 12 + v 11, 12 (del. Co intern. grounds) + v 6 חֶלְאָתָהֿ (cf. Ges§ 91, 1; R. 2) rust on metal pot, symbol of impurity of Jerusalem.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rust (4); its rust (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 24:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.12/#tree)

תְּאֻנִ֖ים הֶלְאָ֑ת וְלֹֽא־תֵצֵ֤א מִמֶּ֙נָּה֙ רַבַּ֣ת חֶלְאָתָ֔הּ בְּאֵ֖שׁ חֶלְאָתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* toil(s) it.has.made.weary and not it.comes.out from it the.great.\[amount\] its.rust her in a.fire rust its

*JPS 1917:* It hath wearied itself with toil; yet its great filth goeth not forth out of it, yea, its noisome filth.

[Ezekiel 24:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.11/#tree)

וְהַעֲמִידֶ֥הָ עַל־גֶּחָלֶ֖יהָ רֵקָ֑ה לְמַ֨עַן תֵּחַ֜ם וְחָ֣רָה נְחֻשְׁתָּ֗הּ וְנִתְּכָ֤ה בְתוֹכָהּ֙ טֻמְאָתָ֔הּ תִּתֻּ֖ם חֶלְאָתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and set it on coals its.burning empty so.that it.may.grow.warm and it.will.burn bronze its and it.will.be.melted in the.midst of.it uncleanness its it.may.be.consumed rust its

*JPS 1917:* then will I set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the bottom thereof may burn, and that the impurity of it may be molten in it, that the filth of it may be consumed.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2457/): 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).