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# חֶלְקָה

Biblical Hebrew

**smooth part** — used 2 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

smooth part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5dc_5b0_5e7_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶלְקָה²: n.f. smooth part, smoothness, flattery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5dc_5b0_5e7_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. smooth part, smoothness, flattery;—cstr. חֶלְקַת Gn 27:16; Pr 6:24; pl. חֲלָקוֹת ψ 12:3 + 3 times;— smoothness, smooth part חֶלְקַת צַוָּארָיו Gn 27:16. pl. slippery places ψ 73:18 fig. of situation of wicked. smoothness = flattery שְׂפַת ח׳ ψ 12:3, cf. v 4; חֶלְקַת לָשׁוֹן Pr 6:24; = subst. pl. smooth things, i.e. agreeable, flattering things Is 30:10.—i. חֶלְקָה v. sub I. חלק.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.24/#tree)

לִ֭שְׁמָרְךָ מֵאֵ֣שֶׁת רָ֑ע מֵֽ֝חֶלְקַ֗ת לָשׁ֥וֹן נָכְרִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* to keep you from a.woman of.evil from smoothness of.tongue a.foreign.\[woman\]

*JPS 1917:* To keep thee from the evil woman, from the smoothness of the alien tongue.

[Genesis 27:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.16/#tree)

וְאֵ֗ת עֹרֹת֙ גְּדָיֵ֣י הָֽעִזִּ֔ים הִלְבִּ֖ישָׁה עַל־יָדָ֑יו וְעַ֖ל חֶלְקַ֥ת צַוָּארָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.skins of.the.kids of the.goats she.clothed on hands his and on the.smooth.part his.neck(s) his

*JPS 1917:* And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5dc_5b0_5e7_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5dc_5b0_5e7_5b8_5d4/): 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).