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הָפַךְ

hafach · turn, overthrow

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2015 · appears 94 times in the Bible

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What it means

hafach (הָפַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turn, overthrow”.

Turn, turn over; change, overthrow.

How to say it

ha·fach

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To turn one's body or course the other way.
  2. To change something into something else.
  3. To bring down cities like Sodom.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To turn, turn over; from there, to change, turn into something else, and to overturn or destroy.

How we translate it

“Turned” 51 times, “turn” 6, “changed” 6, “overturned” 6, “turns” 4, “overthrew” 3. The sense of the context decides: “overturn” when it is destruction (“He overturned those cities”, Genesis 19:25), “turned into” when something becomes something else (Exodus 7:20), “has turned” in the laws on sores (Leviticus 13:3), “changed” when it is a person (“be changed into another man”, 1 Samuel 10:6).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • turned ×51
  • Turn ×6
  • changed ×6
  • overturned ×6
  • turns ×4
  • overthrew ×3
  • I will overthrow ×2
  • change ×2
  • he overturns them ×2
  • overthrow ×2
  • others ×10

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 3:24

    And he drove out the man, and he stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the flame of the sword that turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

  • Genesis 19:21

    He said to him, “Look, I grant you this request also, not to overturn the city of which you have spoken.

  • Genesis 19:25

    He overturned those cities, and the whole plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

  • Genesis 19:29

    So it was that when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, Elohim remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overturning, when he overturned the cities in which Lot had lived.

  • Exodus 7:15

    Go to Pharaoh in the morning; look, he is going out to the water. Station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile, and the staff that was turned into a serpent you shall take in your hand.

  • Exodus 7:17

    Thus says YHWH: “By this you will know that I am YHWH: look, I am going to strike with the staff that is in my hand the water that is in the Nile, and it will be turned into blood.

  • Exodus 7:20

    Moses and Aaron did so, as YHWH had commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned into blood.

  • Exodus 10:19

    And YHWH turned it into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Reeds; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

  • Exodus 14:5

    When it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, 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?”

  • Leviticus 13:3

    The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the appearance of the sore is deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore; when the priest has examined him he shall declare him unclean.

  • Leviticus 13:4

    But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore seven days.

  • Leviticus 13:10

    The priest shall examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

  • Leviticus 13:13

    the priest shall examine him, and if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall declare clean the one with the sore; it has all turned white; he is clean.

  • Leviticus 13:16

    Or if the raw flesh changes again and turns white, he shall come to the priest.

  • Leviticus 13:17

    The priest shall examine him, and if the sore has turned white, the priest shall declare clean the one with the sore; he is clean.

  • Leviticus 13:20

    The priest shall examine it, and if its appearance is lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore; it has broken out in the ulcer.

  • Leviticus 13:25

    the priest shall examine it, and 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 burn, and the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

  • Leviticus 13:55

    The priest shall examine the mark after it has been washed, and if the mark has not changed its appearance —even though the mark has not spread— it is unclean; you shall burn it with fire; it is a corrosion, whether on its back or on its front.

  • Deuteronomy 23:5

    But YHWH your Elohim was not willing to listen to Balaam, and YHWH your Elohim turned for you the curse into a blessing, because YHWH your Elohim loves you.

  • Deuteronomy 29:23

    —all its land brimstone and salt, a burning; it will not be sown, and it will not sprout, and no plant will come up in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in his anger and in his wrath—

  • Joshua 7:8

    Please, Adonai, what can I say, after Israel has turned its back before its enemies?

  • Joshua 8:20

    The men of Ai turned back and looked, and look, the smoke of the city was going up to the heavens, and they had no strength to flee this way or that way; and the people who were fleeing to the wilderness turned back against the pursuer.

  • Judges 7:13

    Gideon came, and there was a man recounting a dream to his companion. He said, “Look, I dreamed a dream: there was a round loaf of barley tumbling into the camp of Midian; it came to the tent and struck it, and it fell; it turned it upside down, and the tent fell flat.”

  • Judges 20:39

    Then the men of Israel turned in the war, and Benjamin began to strike men dead among the men of Israel, about thirty men, for they said, “Surely they are completely struck down before us, as in the first war.”

  • Judges 20:41

    And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified, for they saw that the evil had reached them.

  • 1 Samuel 4:19

    Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And she heard the news that the ark of Elohim had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, and she crouched down and gave birth, for her pains came over her.

  • 1 Samuel 10:6

    And the spirit of YHWH will come mightily on you, and you will prophesy with them and be changed into another man.

  • 1 Samuel 10:9

    And it happened, as he turned his back to go from Samuel, that Elohim changed for him another heart; and all these signs came about on that day.

  • 1 Samuel 25:12

    David’s young men turned on their way and went back and came and told him according to all these words.

  • 2 Samuel 10:3

    and the commanders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Is David honoring your father in your eyes because he has sent comforters to you? Is it not in order to explore the city, to spy it out and to overthrow it, that David has sent his servants to you?”

  • 1 Kings 22:34

    But a man drew the bow in his simplicity, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the breastplate. He said to his chariot driver, “Turn your hand and take me out of the camp, for I am wounded.”

  • 2 Kings 5:26

    He said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when a man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to take silver and to take clothes, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, male slaves and female slaves?

  • 2 Kings 9:23

    Joram turned his hands and fled and said to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”

  • 2 Kings 21:13

    I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

  • 1 Chronicles 19:3

    and the commanders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun, “Is David honoring your father in your eyes because he has sent comforters to you? Is it not in order to explore and to overthrow and to spy out the land that his servants have come to you?”

  • 2 Chronicles 9:12

    King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her wish, whatever she asked, besides what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her land, she and her servants.

  • 2 Chronicles 18:33

    But a man drew the bow in his simplicity, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the breastplate. He said to the chariot driver, “Turn your hand and take me out of the camp, for I am wounded.”

  • Nehemiah 13:2

    because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and he hired against him Balaam to curse him; but our Elohim turned the curse into a blessing.

  • Esther 9:1

    And in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of it, when the word of the king and his law came to be carried out, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to rule over them, it was turned around, so that the Jews themselves ruled over those who hated them.

  • Esther 9:22

    as the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of banqueting and gladness, and of sending portions each to his companion, and gifts to the needy.

And 54 more times.