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# חָלָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2509

**smooth** — used 9 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 [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2509/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָלָק: adj. smooth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2509/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. smooth— lit. אִישׁ חָלָק Gn 27:11 (J), smooth man (opp. אישׁ שָׂעִר); הָהָר הֶחָלָק Jos 11:17; 12:7 the bald mt. (both D); southern limit of Jos.’s conquest, identif. dub.; (1) white cliffs 8 m. S. of Dead Sea, and (2) Mt. Mâdara SW. from Pass es-Ṣafâ are proposed, v. Di.; as subst. חַלְּקֵי־נַחַל Is 57:6 (v. i. חֵלָק, 4) smooth (stones) of a brook-bed (ravine, wady), i.e. thou worshippest common round stones (contempt., v. Che Di). fig. of mouth uttering smooth words וְחָלָק מִשֶּׁמֶן חִכָּהּ Pr 5:3 cf. 26:28. as subst. = flattery מִקְסַם חָלָק Ez 12:24 divination of flattery or of a flatterer.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: smooth (3); of flattering \[words\] (2); flattering \[words\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 12:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.4/#tree)

יַכְרֵ֣ת יְ֭הוָה כָּל־שִׂפְתֵ֣י חֲלָק֑וֹת לָ֝שׁ֗וֹן מְדַבֶּ֥רֶת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* may.he.cut.off Yahweh all \[the\].lips of.flattering.\[words\] a.tongue \[which\].speaks great.\[things\]

*JPS 1917:* May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things!

[Psalms 73:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.18/#tree)

אַ֣ךְ בַּ֭חֲלָקוֹת תָּשִׁ֣ית לָ֑מוֹ הִ֝פַּלְתָּ֗ם לְמַשּׁוּאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* surely on smooth.\[places\] you.set (to) them you make.them.fall to deceptions

*JPS 1917:* Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2509.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2509/): 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).