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Strong's #2477 - חֲלַח

Transliteration

Chălach

Phonetics

khal-akh'

Origin

probably of foreign origin

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Halah = "painful"
1. a city or district in Mesopotamia under Assyrian control where the Israelite captives were taken

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

BSB (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

CSB (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

ESV (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

KJV (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

LEB (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

LSB (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

N95 (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

NAS (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (3)

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

חֲלַח proper name, of a location a city or district under Assyrian control, whither Israel captives were taken 2 Kings 17:6 = 2 Kings 18:11,1Chronicles 5:26, compare –ala——u in Mesopotamia, Schr^COT on 2 Kings 17:8; > Hal^{Mél. Epigr. 1874,70} Cilica (= Phoenician חלך, Lag^{M. i. 211}, Assyrian –ilakku, Lyon^Sargontexte) Lag^{BN 57}.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

חֲלַח [Halah] pr.n. of a province of Assyria, whither a portion of the ten tribes were taken by Shalmanezer; it is probably Calachene (Καλαχηνή, Strab. xvi. 1; Καλακινὴ, Ptol. vi. 1), the northern province of Assyria, on the confines of Armenia, 2 Kings 17:6, 18:11. Compare בֶּלַח.

[חַלְחוּל Halhul, pr.n. Joshua 15:38, now called Hŭlhûl, حلحول, Rob. i. 319.]

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List of Word Forms

בַּחְלַ֧ח בחלח לַחְלַ֨ח לחלח bachLach baḥ·laḥ baḥlaḥ lachLach laḥ·laḥ laḥlaḥ