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# חַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2643

**clean** — 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

clean [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2643/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַף²: adj. clean [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2643/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. clean—only זַךְ אֲנִי בְּלִי֫ פָ֥שַׁע חַף אָנֹכִ֑י Jb 33:9 I am pure, without transgression, I am clean (in speech of Elihu).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[am\] innocent (1).

## In the verses

[Job 33:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.9/#tree)

זַ֥ךְ אֲנִ֗י בְּֽלִ֫י פָ֥שַׁע חַ֥ף אָנֹכִ֑י וְלֹ֖א עָוֺ֣ן לִֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[am\].pure I not transgression \[am\].innocent I and not iniquity \[belongs\].to me

*JPS 1917:* 'I am clean, without transgression, I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2643.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2643/): 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).