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# חֲלוּשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2476

**weakness** — 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

weakness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2476/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲלוּשָׁה: n.f. weakness prostration [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2476/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. weakness prostration, אֵין קוֹל עֲנוֹת ח׳ Ex 32:18 it is not the sound of the answering of weakness (JE; opp. גְּבוּרָה).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Exodus 32:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.18/#tree)

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אֵ֥ין קוֹל֙ עֲנ֣וֹת גְּבוּרָ֔ה וְאֵ֥ין ק֖וֹל עֲנ֣וֹת חֲלוּשָׁ֑ה ק֣וֹל עַנּ֔וֹת אָנֹכִ֖י שֹׁמֵֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said \[it.is\].not a.sound of.singing of.strength and \[it.is\].not a.sound of.singing of.weakness a.sound of.singing I \[am\].hearing

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2476.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2476/): 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).