חָלַף
cha.laph (H2498)
to pass
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The Hebrew word "חָלַף" (cha.laph) means "to pass" and falls under the semantic domain of Movement and Travel. This word is used 28 times in the Bible, indicating its importance and versatility in conveying a range of ideas related to movement, transition, and displacement. In its simplest sense, "חָלַף" can denote physical movement, such as walking, moving, or passing by (e.g., Exod 4:28). However, it also carries abstract meanings, such as passing from one state to another (e.g., Psalm 95:11) or experiencing the passing of time (e.g., 2 Sam 7:12). This word's wide range of usage reflects its connection to the human experience of movement and change. The significance of "חָלַף" lies in its ability to convey a sense of transition and transformation. This word highlights the dynamic and often unpredictable nature of human experience, emphasizing that we are all in a constant state of movement, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual. The multiple occurrences of "חָלַ
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Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
He shall not alter it, nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If he shall at all exchange animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy.
She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
“Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of wine.
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.
Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
The idols shall utterly pass away.
It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.
“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.
Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”