חֵלְכָא
chelcha · helpless one
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2489 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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chelcha (חֵלְכָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “helpless one”.
Helpless, unfortunate: a person without protection. A rare word found only in Psalm 10; its exact sense is not certain.
How to say it
chel·cha
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
- Someone with no one to protect him.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Psalms 10:8
He sits in the ambush of the villages; in the hiding places he kills the innocent; his eyes watch stealthily for the helpless.
- Psalms 10:14
You have seen it, for you look at suffering and grief to put it in your hand; to you the helpless abandons himself; you have been the helper of the orphan.