חָלַק
châlaq · khaw-lak'
to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate
- to be smooth (figuratively)
- by implication, (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: deal, distribute, divide, flatter, give, (have, im-) part(-ner), take away a portion, receive, separate self, (be) smooth(-er).
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
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › authority, the one who leads › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To separate and protect of authority, the one who leads of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָלַק 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
65 occurrences · 65 OT · 0 NT · 60 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- divided5 · 13%
- i will divide4 · 10%
- shall be divided4 · 10%
- hath divided3 · 8%
- divide2 · 5%
- and he dealt2 · 5%
- which flattereth2 · 5%
- and he divided1 · 3%
- he shall divide1 · 3%
- thereof be divided1 · 3%
- not, and whom he had not given1 · 3%
- now therefore divide1 · 3%
- and they divided1 · 3%
- which had not yet received1 · 3%
- and they shall divide1 · 3%
- of dividing1 · 3%
- have they not divided1 · 3%
- they shall part1 · 3%
- so they divided1 · 3%
- distributed1 · 3%
- and thus were they divided1 · 3%
- thus were they divided1 · 3%
- had distributed1 · 3%
- took away a portion1 · 3%
- and didst divide1 · 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.