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# חֲלוֹף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2475

**a passing away** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a passing away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2475/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲלוֹף: n.m. passing away, vanishing Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2475/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a passing away, vanishing (properly Inf. of חלף)—בְּנֵי ח׳ Pr 31:8 i. e. those who are passing away, transitory (cf. Qal 1 b).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of passing away (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 31:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.8/#tree)

פְּתַח־פִּ֥יךָ לְאִלֵּ֑ם אֶל־דִּ֝֗ין כָּל־בְּנֵ֥י חֲלֽוֹף׃

*Word for word:* open mouth your for.\[the\] dumb to \[the\].cause of.all \[the\].sons of.passing.away

*JPS 1917:* Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2475.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2475/): 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).