הָפַךְ
ha.phakh (H2015)
to overturn
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# The Hebrew Word for Overturning: הָפַךְ (haphakh) The Hebrew verb הָפַךְ (haphakh) carries the fundamental meaning of "to overturn" or "to turn over," describing a physical action of reversing or inverting something from its original position. This straightforward physical sense forms the semantic foundation for the word's usage across the Hebrew Bible's 94 recorded occurrences. The verb captures the concrete action of flipping, rotating, or displacing objects—whether literal reversals of material things or metaphorical applications to states and circumstances. The frequency of this word's appearance (94 times) suggests it held considerable importance in biblical Hebrew vocabulary for expressing transformation through reversal. Given this substantial usage, הָפַךְ likely served as a primary term when biblical authors needed to communicate not merely change, but specifically the inversion or complete alteration of a situation or condition. The word's persistence across biblical literature indicates it was a standard and reliable way to express the concept of turning something upside down—whether describing actual physical displacement or the reversal of circumstances, conditions, or fortunes in more abstract contexts. Without access to specific contextual examples from the lexicon data provided, the full range of metaphorical and theological applications remains bounded by what the definition suggests: wherever reversal or overturning serves as an appropriate image, this verb would
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So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned to a serpent in your hand.
Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean.
If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.
Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest.
The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.
The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.
then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn’t changed its color, and the plague hasn’t spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.
Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”
The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.
His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
Then Yahweh’s Spirit will come mightily on you, and you will prophesy with them, and will be turned into another man.
It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day.
So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him all these words.
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”
He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”
I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded.”
because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
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