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# חָלַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew

**be weak** — 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

be weak [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e9_5c1/#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/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e9_5c1/#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, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: O \[you who\] defeat (1); he defeated (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 17:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.17.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.17.13/#tree)

וַיַּחֲלֹ֧שׁ יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ אֶת־עֲמָלֵ֥ק וְאֶת־עַמּ֖וֹ לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.defeated Joshua (et) Amalek and (et) people its to.\[the\] mouth of.\[the\].sword

*JPS 1917:* And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

[Isaiah 14:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.12/#tree)

אֵ֛יךְ נָפַ֥לְתָּ מִשָּׁמַ֖יִם הֵילֵ֣ל בֶּן־שָׁ֑חַר נִגְדַּ֣עְתָּ לָאָ֔רֶץ חוֹלֵ֖שׁ עַל־גּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* how! you.have.fallen from heaven O.shining.one son of.dawn you.have.been.cut.down to the ground O.\[you.who\].defeat over \[the\].nations

*JPS 1917:* How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, that didst cast lots over the nations!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e9_5c1.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_5e9_5c1/): 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).