Strong’s H2502 · Hebrew

חָלַץ
châlats
khaw-lats'

Definition

to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

  • arm (self)
  • (go
  • ready) armed ( man
  • soldier)
  • deliver
  • draw out
  • make fat
  • loose
  • (ready) prepared
  • put off
  • take away
  • withdraw self

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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