Lexical Summary chaliphah: a change Original Word: חלִיפָהTransliteration: chaliphah Phonetic Spelling: (khal-ee-faw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a change Meaning: alternation Strong's Concordance change, course From chalaph; alternation -- change, course. see HEBREW chalaph Brown-Driver-Briggs H2487. chaliphah [חֲלִיפָה] noun feminine a change (from idea of replacing, changing, substituting, compare Arabic, Aramaic) — suffix חֲלִיפָתִי Job 14:14; plural absolute חֲלִיפוֺת Judges 14:19 3t.; construct id. 14:13; 2 Kings 5:5; חֲלִפוֺת Genesis 45:22 2t.; חֲלִפֹת 45:22; Judges 14:12; — 1 change of raiment ׳ח שׂמלת Genesis 45:22 (twice in verse), elsewhere ׳ח בגדים Judges 14:12-13, 2 Kings 5:5, 22, 23; so without בגדים Judges 14:19. 2 relays 1 Kings 5:28; compare ׳ח וצבא Job 10:17 (Di). 3 revival after death, under figure of relief from military service Job 14:14. 4 changing, varying, of course of life לָ֑מוֺ חֲלִיפוֺת אֵין אֲשֶׁר Psalm 55:20 of the wicked, with whom are no changings, i.e. they do evil incessantly, steadily ("" אלהים יָרְאוּ ולא) so Kmp Hu De Sch and others; but the expression is peculiar and obscure; Calv vicissitudes; Hengst discharges; text perhaps corrupt. |