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חׇפְשׁוּת

chfshut · separateness

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2669 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

chfshut (חׇפְשׁוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “separateness”.

A word found only in the phrase "house of freedom" or "separate house" (2 Kings 15:5; 2 Chronicles 26:21), where King Azariah lived when he became leprous. Its exact sense is not known: the lexicon thinks of a place of separation because of sickness.

How to say it

chfshut

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. Set off, isolated from others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

  • 2 Kings 15:5

    YHWH struck the king, and he was a leper until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house; and Jotham the son of the king was over the house, judging the people of the land.

  • 2 Chronicles 26:21

    Uzziah the king was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house, leprous, for he was cut off from the house of YHWH; and Jotham his son was over the house of the king, judging the people of the land.