חָלַף châlaph

Meaning

properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change

In the King James Version: abolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout, strike through.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 31:7 And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
• Genesis 31:41 Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
• Genesis 35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
• Genesis 41:14 So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
• Leviticus 27:10 He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
• Judges 5:26 She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
• 1 Samuel 10:3 Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
• 2 Samuel 12:20 Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
• Job 4:15 Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
• Job 9:11 Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.
• Job 9:26 They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
• Job 11:10 If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
• Job 14:7 For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
• Job 20:24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
• Job 29:20 My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’
• Psalms 90:5 You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
• Psalms 90:6 in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
• Psalms 102:26 They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.
• Song of Solomon 2:11 For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
• Isaiah 2:18 and the idols will vanish completely.
• Isaiah 8:8 It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!
• Isaiah 9:10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
• Isaiah 21:1 This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
• Isaiah 24:5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
• Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
• Isaiah 41:1 “Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.
• Habakkuk 1:11 Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”