חָלַץ
châlats · khaw-lats'
to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen
- to pull off
- hence, (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart
- by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight)
- present, strengthen
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: arm (self), (go, ready) armed ([idiom] man, soldier), deliver, draw out, make fat, loose, (ready) prepared, put off, take away, withdraw self.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › authority, the one who leads › to pursue the straight path
To separate and protect of authority, the one who leads that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָלַץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
44 occurrences · 44 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- armed4 · 12%
- every man armed2 · 6%
- he delivered2 · 6%
- deliver2 · 6%
- i will deliver2 · 6%
- may be delivered2 · 6%
- that they take1 · 3%
- that he hath taken1 · 3%
- arm1 · 3%
- if ye will go armed1 · 3%
- all of you armed1 · 3%
- with you armed1 · 3%
- and loose1 · 3%
- loosed1 · 3%
- prepared1 · 3%
- and let him that is armed1 · 3%
- and the armed1 · 3%
- and the armed men1 · 3%
- that were ready armed1 · 3%
- ready armed1 · 3%
- ready prepared1 · 3%
- the army1 · 3%
- so the armed men1 · 3%
- he delivereth1 · 3%
- with me;(yea, i have delivered1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.