King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2522
Transliteration: chalash
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lash')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be weak or prostrate
Meaning: to prostrate, to overthrow, decay
Word Summary
chalash: to be weak or prostrate
Original Word: חָלַשׁTransliteration: chalash
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lash')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be weak or prostrate
Meaning: to prostrate, to overthrow, decay
Strong's Concordance
discomfit, waste away, weaken A primitive root; to prostrate; by implication, to overthrow, decay -- discomfit, waste away, weaken.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2522. chalash
[חָלַשׁ] verb 1. be weak, prostrate.
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 ויח ימות ׳וגבר 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.