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# חֲלִיפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2487

**a change** — used 12 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

a change [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2487/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲלִיפָה: n.f. change [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2487/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a change (from idea of replacing, changing, substituting, cf. Arabic, Aramaic)—sf. חֲלִיפָתִי Jb 14:14; pl. abs. חֲלִיפוֹת Ju 14:19 + 3 times; cstr. id. Ju 14:13 2 K 5:5; חֲלִפוֹת Gn 45:22 + 2 times; חֲלִפֹת Gn 45:22 Ju 14:12;— change of raiment ח׳ שׂמלת Gn 45:22(×2), elsewhere ח׳ בגדים Ju 14:12, 13 2 K 5:5, 22, 23; so without בגדים Ju 14:19. relays 1 K 5:28; cf. ח׳ וצבא Jb 10:17 (Di). revival after death, under fig. of relief from milit. service Jb 14:14 changing, varying, of course of life אֲשֶׁר אֵין חֲלִיפוֹת לָ֑מוֹ ψ 55:20 of the wicked, with whom are no changings, i.e. they do evil incessantly, steadily (‖ ולא יָרְֽאוּ אלהים) so Kmp Hu De Sch al.; but the expression is peculiar and obscure; Calv vicissitudes; Hengst discharges; text perhaps corrupt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: changes (10); relays (1); relief (1).

## In the verses

[Job 14:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.14/#tree)

אִם־יָמ֥וּת גֶּ֗בֶר הֲיִ֫חְיֶ֥ה כָּל־יְמֵ֣י צְבָאִ֣י אֲיַחֵ֑ל עַד־בּ֝֗וֹא חֲלִיפָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* if he.will.die a.man will he.live? all the.days my.service my I.will.wait until comes relief my

*JPS 1917:* If a man die, may he live again? All the days of my service would I wait, till my relief should come —

[Job 10:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.17/#tree)

תְּחַדֵּ֬שׁ עֵדֶ֨יךָ ׀ נֶגְדִּ֗י וְתֶ֣רֶב כַּֽ֭עַשְׂךָ עִמָּדִ֑י חֲלִיפ֖וֹת וְצָבָ֣א עִמִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* you.renew witnesses your before me and you.increase vexation your with me changes and an.army \[are\].with me

*JPS 1917:* Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, and increasest Thine indignation upon me; host succeeding host against me.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2487/): 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).