חֲלִיצָה
chalitsa · spoil
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2488 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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chalitsa (חֲלִיצָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spoil”.
What is stripped from one who is defeated: his clothing and his weapons.
How to say it
cha·li·tsa
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
- What is stripped from the defeated: clothes and weapons.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- what he is wearing ×1
- what they had on ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 14:19
Then the spirit of YHWH came powerfully upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them, took what they had on, and gave the changes of clothes to those who had explained the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.
- 2 Samuel 2:21
Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right or to your left, and seize for yourself one of the young men and take for yourself what he is wearing.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.