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# חָלַק

Biblical Hebrew

**be 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

be smooth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָלַק²: vb. be smooth, slippery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be smooth, slippery (NH adj. חָלָק smooth, empty, Arabic خَلَقَ make smooth, lie, forge, fabricate)— Pf. ח׳ Ho 10:2; 3 mpl. חָֽלְקוּ ψ 55:22;—smooth, slippery, only fig.: Ho 10:2 of heart of faithless Isr. (so Ew Ke Wü Now RVm), We false; \> Vrss (not 𝔊) Hi St who read חֻלַּק, divided is their heart; 𝔊 ἐμέρισαν; of words, smooth ψ 55:22 i.e. deceptive (‖ רַכּוּ דְבָרָיו מִשֶּׁמֶן). Pf. הֶחֱלִיק ψ 36:3, הֶחֱלִיקָה Pr 2:16; 7:5; Impf. יַחֲלִיקוּן ψ 5:10; Pt. מַחֲלִיק Pr 28:23 + 2 times; make smooth: lit. of idol-maker Is 41:7 c. acc. instr. פַּטִּישׁ hammer. fig. the tongue, i.e. flatter with it ψ 5:10; Pr 28:23, words, Pr 2:16; 7:5 אֲמָרֶיהָ הֶחֱלִיקָה; abs. deal smoothy, sq. אֶל־ ψ 36:3, עַל Pr 29:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: she makes smooth (2); \[one who\] smooths (1); \[who\] flatters (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 28:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.23/#tree)

מ֘וֹכִ֤יחַ אָדָ֣ם אַ֭חֲרַי חֵ֣ן יִמְצָ֑א מִֽמַּחֲלִ֥יק לָשֽׁוֹן׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].reproves a.person after favor he.will.find more than.\[one.who\].makes.smooth \[the\].tongue

*JPS 1917:* He that rebuketh a man shall in the end find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

[Proverbs 29:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.5/#tree)

גֶּ֭בֶר מַחֲלִ֣יק עַל־רֵעֵ֑הוּ רֶ֝֗שֶׁת פּוֹרֵ֥שׂ עַל־פְּעָמָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* a.man \[who\].flatters to neighbor his a.net \[is\].spreading on footsteps his

*JPS 1917:* A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his steps.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e7/): 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).