chalaf · change, pass on

What it means

chalaf (חָלַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “change, pass on”.

Change, replace one thing with another. In other passages, pass by, pass away, or renew (strength).

How to say it

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 sweep by and vanish, like the wind.
2. To swap something, or regain one's strength.
3. To go right through with a blow, pierce.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• changed ×5
• renew ×3
• renewed ×3
• change ×2
• will pass away ×2
• Then you will go on ×1
• They pass ×1
• exchange ×1
• he goes past ×1
• he passes by ×1
• others ×8

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Leviticus×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×7
• Psalms×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 31:7

  Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but Elohim did not allow him to do harm to me.

• Genesis 31:41

  These twenty years I have had in your house: I served you fourteen years for the two of your daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

• Genesis 35:2

  So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. He shaved, changed his clothes, and came to Pharaoh.

• Leviticus 27:10

  He shall not exchange it or substitute for it, a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one; and if he does substitute one beast for another beast, then both it and its substitute shall be holy.

• Judges 5:26

  Her hand she stretched out to the peg, and her right hand to the mallet of the workmen; she hammered Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

• 1 Samuel 10:3

  Then you will go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor, and there three men going up to Elohim at Bethel will find you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three round loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

• 2 Samuel 12:20

  Then David rose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his cloaks; he went into the house of YHWH and bowed down; then he went to his own house and asked, and they set before him bread, and he ate.

• Job 4:15

  A spirit passed over my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.

• Job 9:11

  Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him; he goes past, and I do not perceive him.

• Job 9:26

  They pass like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops on food.

• Job 11:10

  If he passes by and shuts in and assembles, who can turn him back?

• Job 14:7

  For there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, it will renew itself again, and its shoots will not cease.

• Job 20:24

  He will flee from the weapon of iron; the bow of bronze will pierce him.

• Job 29:20

  My honor is new with me, and my bow in my hand is renewed.’

• Psalms 90:5

  You sweep them away; they are a sleep; in the morning they are like grass that is renewed;

• Psalms 90:6

  in the morning it blooms and is renewed; in the evening it withers and dries up.

• Psalms 102:26

  They will perish, but you will remain; and all of them like a garment will wear out; like clothing you will change them, and they will pass away.

• Song of Songs 2:11

  for look, the winter has passed; the rain is over, it has gone away.

• Isaiah 2:18

  And the idols will pass away completely.

• Isaiah 8:8

  and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, it will reach up to the neck; and the spreading of its wings will be the fullness of the breadth of your land, Immanuel!”

• Isaiah 9:10

  “Bricks have fallen, but with hewn stone we will build; sycamores have been cut down, but cedars we will put in their place.”

• Isaiah 21:1

  The burden of the wilderness of the sea. Like whirlwinds in the Negev sweeping through, from the wilderness it comes, from a fearsome land.

• Isaiah 24:5

  And the earth has been polluted under its inhabitants; for they have overstepped the instructions, they have changed the statute, they have broken the eternal covenant.

• Isaiah 40:31

  but those who wait for YHWH will renew their strength; they will go up with plumage like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not grow tired.

• Isaiah 41:1

  Be silent before me, coastlands, and let the peoples renew their strength; let them come near, then let them speak; together to judgment let us draw near.

• Habakkuk 1:11

  Then he sweeps by like the wind and passes on, and he becomes guilty, this one whose strength is his god.”

And 1 more times.