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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