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# חָלַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2522

**be weak** — 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

be weak [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2522/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָלַשׁ: vb. be weak, prostrate weaken, disable, prostrate Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2522/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be weak, prostrate. (si vera l.) weaken, disable, prostrate (Aramaic חֲלַשׁ be weak; ܚܰܠܳܫ, חַלָּשׁ weak, as in Heb.; Arabic مُحْلِس poor (Frey))— Impf. וַיַּחֲלֹשׁ Ex 17:13, וַיֶּחֱלָ֑שׁ Jb 14:10; Pt. חוֹלֵשׁ Is 14:12; וגבר ימות ויח׳ Jb 14:10 but man dieth and is prostrate. disable, prostrate, sq. acc. pers. Ex 17:13 (E; point as Hiph.?); sq. עַל pers. (strangely) Is 14:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 14:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.10/#tree)

וְגֶ֣בֶר יָ֭מוּת וַֽיֶּחֱלָ֑שׁ וַיִּגְוַ֖ע אָדָ֣ם וְאַיּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and a.man he.dies and he.was.weak and he.expired a.person and where.\[is\] he?

*JPS 1917:* But man dieth, and lieth low; yea, man perisheth, and where is he?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2522.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2522/): 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).