חָלַף

Genesis 31:7 וְהֶחֱלִ֥ף and he has changed

And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

Here: This form of the verb means to swap one thing for another, here to substitute new terms. Laban kept rewriting the deal after it had been agreed.

Genesis 31:41 וַתַּחֲלֵ֥ף and you changed

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 וְהַחֲלִ֖יפוּ and change

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.

Here: 'Make a change of' your clothes: take off one set and put on another. It is an outward sign of passing from one state to another.

Genesis 41:14 וַיְחַלֵּ֣ף and he changed

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.

Here: "And he changed." He swaps one set of clothes for another. In Hebrew narrative, changing clothes often marks moving from one condition to another, such as from mourning or confinement to public life (compare 2 Samuel 12:20).

Leviticus 27:10 יַחֲלִיפֶ֗נּוּ he will substitute it

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 וְחָלְפָ֖ה and she pierced

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 וְחָלַפְתָּ֨ and you will pass on

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 וַיְחַלֵּף֙ and he changed

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 יַחֲלֹ֑ף it passed over

Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

Job 9:11 וְ֝יַחֲלֹ֗ף and he may pass on

Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.

Job 9:26 חָ֭לְפוּ they have passed on

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Job 11:10 יַחֲלֹ֥ף he will pass by

If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

Here: God moves through like wind or a flood, swiftly and without asking leave. The same verb appears in Job's own words at 9:11, so Zophar is picking up Job's image. In this sequence it may also suggest God arriving on the scene to act, the first step of an arrest.

Job 14:7 יַחֲלִ֑יף it will sprout afresh

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

Here: The tree 'renews itself' or 'puts out fresh growth', taking the place of what was lost. The same root comes back in verse 14, where Job waits for his own ḥălîp̄â, his 'change' or 'relief'.

Job 20:24 תַּ֝חְלְפֵ֗הוּ it will cut through him

Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.

Here: "It passes through him". The verb is feminine to agree with "bow". Here it means to go right through, the same verb Jael uses when she drives the tent peg through Sisera's temple (Judges 5:26). It pictures a wound that goes all the way through, not a graze.

Job 29:20 תַחֲלִֽיף׃ it will show newness

My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’

Psalm 90:5 יַחֲלֹֽף׃ [which] it sprouts up

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Here: The verb points two ways at once. It can mean 'to come up fresh, be renewed' or 'to pass by, vanish'. In the morning the grass sprouts new, and it is already on its way out. Verse 6 repeats the same verb (wəḥālāp̄) next to 'withers'.

Psalm 90:6 וְחָלָ֑ף and it sprouts up

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Psalm 102:26 תַּחֲלִיפֵ֣ם וְֽיַחֲלֹֽפוּ׃ you will change them, and they may pass away

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.

Here: 'You will change them': God is the one doing it. He will swap the heavens and earth the way a person changes out of one set of clothes into another. The verb makes something 'pass' from one state or owner to another.

Song of Songs 2:11 חָלַ֖ף it has passed away

For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.

Isaiah 2:18 יַחֲלֹֽף׃ it will pass away

and the idols will vanish completely.

Isaiah 8:8 וְחָלַ֤ף and it will pass on

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!

Here: The verb for wind or water rushing past and moving on (used of storm winds in Isa 21:1). The flood of verse 7, which first strikes Aram and northern Israel, does not stop at the border; it rushes on into Judah.

Isaiah 9:10 נַחֲלִֽיף׃ we will substitute

“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Here: “We will put in their place” or “swap in.” This is the causative form of a verb meaning to pass on or change. It does not mean turning sycamore wood into cedar. It means replacing one with the other, and the replacement is an upgrade.

Isaiah 21:1 לַֽחֲלֹ֔ף to sweep on

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.

Here: 'For passing through': the storms rush across the land and are gone, leaving damage behind. The verb suggests movement that sweeps over and past everything in its path.

Isaiah 24:5 חָ֣לְפוּ they have overstepped

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Here: A second movement word: 'they swept past' the decree, overstepping it. The verb can also mean 'to change or alter' (KJV 'changed'). Its sound echoes chanefah ('polluted') earlier in the verse.

Isaiah 40:31 יַחֲלִ֣יפוּ they will renew

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.

Here: A causative form of a verb meaning "to pass on, change": they will change their strength for new, putting on fresh strength in place of what is used up. The tense is a promise about the future.

Isaiah 41:1 יַחֲלִ֣יפוּ let them renew

“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.

Here: “Let them renew.” The verb pictures trading old for new, like a cut tree that sprouts again. It is the same word as in 40:31, so the nations are told, with some irony, to muster fresh strength for the case they are about to argue.

Habakkuk 1:11 חָלַ֥ף it swept on

Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”