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Strong's #2522 - חָלַשׁ
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- to be weak, be prostrate
- (Qal) to be prostrate
- to weaken, disable, prostrate
- (Qal) to disable, prostrate
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2168) slh (ההלסה HhLSh) AC: Weaken CO: ? AB: Weak: Something that is weak, failing, decayed or wasted away. [from: lh]
V) slh (ההלסה HhLSh) - Weaken: KJV (3): (vf: Paal) discomfit, waste away, weaken - Strongs: H2522 (חָלַשׁ)
Nm) slh (ההלסה HhLSh) - Weak: KJV (1): weak - Strongs: H2523 (חַלָּשׁ)
df1) esflh (ההלוסהה HhLWShH) - Defeat: As becoming weakened. KJV (1): overcome - Strongs: H2476 (חֲלוּשָׁה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
2 (si vera lectio) weaken, disable, prostrate (Aramaic חֲלַשׁ be weak; 
, חַלָּשׁ weak, as in Hebrew; Arabic 
poor (Frey)) —
Qal Imperfect וַיַּחֲלשׁ Exodus 17:13, וַיֶּחֱלָ֑שׁ Job 14:10; Participle חוֺלֵשׁ Isaiah 14:12;
1׳וגבר ימות ויח Job 14:10 but man dieth and is prostrate.
2 disable, prostrate, followed by accusative of person Exodus 17:13 (E; point as
Hiph`il ?); followed by עַל person (strangely) Isaiah 14:12.
חָלַשׁ
(1) fut. יַחֲלשׁ to prostrate, to vanquish, Exodus 17:13 followed by עַל Isaiah 14:12 like the Germ. fiegen über. (Arab. حَلَسَ to prostrate, حَلسُِ manful, brave). Hence חֲלוּשָׁה.
(2) fut. יֶחֱלַשׁ intrans. to be weak, to waste away, to be frail, properly to be prostrated; Job 14:10. (Syr. Ethpael, to be weakened, ܚܰܠܳܫܐܳ weak.)
[Derivatives חַלָּשׁ, חֲלוּשָׁה.]
