חָלַץ

Leviticus 14:40 וְחִלְּצוּ֙ and people will tear out

he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

Leviticus 14:43 חִלֵּ֣ץ tears out

If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house has been scraped and replastered,

Numbers 31:3 הֵחָלְצ֧וּ be equipped

So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.

Numbers 31:5 חֲלוּצֵ֥י armed [men] of

So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.

Numbers 32:17 נֵחָלֵ֣ץ we will equip ourselves

But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

Numbers 32:20 תֵּחָֽלְצ֛וּ you will equip yourselves

Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

Numbers 32:21 חָל֛וּץ equipped [man]

and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,

Numbers 32:27 חֲל֥וּץ equipped [man] of

But your servants are equipped for war, and every man will cross over to the battle before the LORD, just as our lord says.”

Numbers 32:29 חָל֤וּץ equipped [man]

And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

Numbers 32:30 חֲלוּצִ֖ים equipped

But if they do not arm themselves and go across with you, then they must accept their possession among you in the land of Canaan.”

Here: 'Equipped for battle', 'girded and ready'. It describes fighting men stripped of baggage and kitted out for combat. These are the troops who will march at the front (compare v. 17, Josh 4:12–13).

Numbers 32:32 חֲלוּצִ֛ים equipped

We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”

Deuteronomy 3:18 חֲלוּצִ֣ים equipped

At that time I commanded you: “The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor are to cross over, armed for battle, ahead of your brothers, the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 25:9 וְחָלְצָ֤ה and she will draw off

his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”

Deuteronomy 25:10 חֲל֥וּץ [the] [one] drawn off of

And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”

Joshua 4:13 חֲלוּצֵ֣י <the> armed [men] of

About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.

Here: A passive participle, 'those who have been made ready': men girded and stripped down for action, carrying their weapons. It is the exact word Moses used when he set the terms for these tribes in Numbers 32 and Deuteronomy 3:18.

Joshua 6:7 וְהֶ֣חָל֔וּץ and the armed [man]

And he told the people, “Advance and march around the city, with the armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”

Here: A singular word with a collective sense: "the armed [contingent]," meaning the troops stripped down and equipped for battle. It works as a technical term for a vanguard (the troops who march at the front), and it echoes the armed men who crossed the Jordan ahead of Israel in 4:12–13.

Joshua 6:9 וְהֶחָל֣וּץ and the armed [man]

While the horns continued to sound, the armed troops marched ahead of the priests who blew the horns, and the rear guard followed the ark.

Here: A passive participle with 'the', used as a group noun: 'the equipped fighting force'. The same word marks the troops 'equipped for war' who crossed the Jordan ahead of Israel (Josh 4:12–13), so it may point to the same vanguard.

Joshua 6:13 וְהֶחָלוּץ֙ and the armed [man]

And the seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns kept marching ahead of the ark of the LORD and blowing the horns. The armed troops went in front of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the horns kept sounding.

Here: A singular used for a group: 'the armed man' means the armed vanguard. The word means 'stripped for action,' that is, equipped and ready to fight. In Joshua 4:13 the same term describes the eastern tribes' fighting men.

2 Samuel 22:20 יְחַלְּצֵ֖נִי he rescued me

He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

Here: From a root used for pulling something off or out, and in this form a regular word for rescuing someone. It comes with no 'and' before it, so the second statement lands abruptly beside the first.

1 Chronicles 12:23 הֶֽחָלוּץ֙ the [man] equipped

Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD:

1 Chronicles 12:24 חֲלוּצֵ֥י [men] equipped of

From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.

2 Chronicles 17:18 חֲלוּצֵ֥י [men] equipped of

and next to him, Jehozabad, and with him 180,000 armed for battle.

2 Chronicles 20:21 הֶֽחָל֔וּץ the [man] equipped

Then Jehoshaphat consulted with the people and appointed those who would sing to the LORD and praise the splendor of His holiness. As they went out before the army, they were singing: “Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures forever.”

Here: A collective term for 'the armed men' or 'the troops in battle gear'. The same word describes the armed men who march ahead of the priests and the ark at Jericho (Josh 6:7, 9, 13). Here the order is reversed: the Levites walk in front of the armed men.

2 Chronicles 28:14 הֶֽחָל֗וּץ the [man] equipped

So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.

Job 36:15 יְחַלֵּ֣ץ he rescues

God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.

Psalm 6:4 חַלְּצָ֣ה rescue !

Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.

Here: An intensive command, also with the urgent -ah ending. The root pictures pulling something off or out (a sandal, stones from a wall), so it means 'pull my life free' from what has hold of it.

Psalm 7:4 וָאֲחַלְּצָ֖ה and I have rescued !

if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

Here: The root means 'draw out / pull off'. Elsewhere in the Psalms this form usually means 'rescue' (drawing someone out of danger). Here, though, the 'if' that governs the clause and the parallel with 'did evil to my ally' point to the opposite sense: 'stripped, plundered'. The older 'rescued' reading survives in the KJV's parenthesis.

Psalm 18:19 יְ֝חַלְּצֵ֗נִי he rescued me

He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

Here: 'He pulled me free / rescued me.' The root's physical sense is 'pull off, draw out' (as a sandal is pulled off a foot), so the rescue is pictured as being extracted from a grip. The form is a prefix-tense verb, which in poetry like this often narrates a past event.

Psalm 34:7 וַֽיְחַלְּצֵֽם׃ and he rescued them

The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them.

Here: 'And he pulls them out / sets them free.' The root's basic picture is drawing something out or off, so this means being pulled out of danger. The verb form usually tells a completed event ('and he rescued'). After the ongoing participle it reads as the result: because he camps around them, he gets them out. 'He' may be the angel or Yahweh.

Psalm 50:15 אֲ֝חַלֶּצְךָ֗ I will rescue you

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

Here: 'I will pull you out.' The verb is used for drawing something out or removing it, so after 'narrow straits' the picture is God pulling the person free of the tight place. It is a flat first-person promise from God, given with no condition attached except the call.

Psalm 60:5 יֵחָלְצ֣וּן they may be rescued !

Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

Here: Passive form: 'they may be pulled out', like something drawn free from a trap or a grip. The longer ending (-ûn) adds weight. The people are pictured as caught and needing to be pulled clear.

Psalm 81:7 וָאֲחַ֫לְּצֶ֥ךָּ and I rescued you

You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

Here: 'And I pulled you out': the root's basic picture is drawing something off or out (like pulling off a sandal). In this intensive form it means rescue, pulling someone out of the tight place just named.

Psalm 91:15 אֲ֝חַלְּצֵ֗הוּ I will rescue him

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

Here: "I will pull him out." The basic sense of the verb is drawing something off or out (a sandal off a foot, stones out of a wall). It fits the picture of the tight place: God pulls the person loose from what has him pinned.

Psalm 108:6 יֵחָלְצ֣וּן they may be rescued !

Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

Here: A passive verb: 'they may be pulled free.' The root pictures pulling something out or off, here people pulled out of danger. The extra -n ending is an older, fuller form that adds weight and is common in poetry.

Psalm 116:8 חִלַּ֥צְתָּ you have rescued

For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

Here: 'You pulled me free.' The form is intensive, and the root's basic picture is pulling something out or off, as with a sandal or a diseased stone. The tense marks the rescue as finished. The speaker has already been brought out and now looks back. He also turns here from speaking to his own soul (v. 7) to speaking directly to God.

Psalm 119:153 וְחַלְּצֵ֑נִי and rescue me

Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

Here: "And pull me out." The root means to draw something off or out, like pulling off a sandal or prying stones out of a wall. Here it means to rescue: pull me out of the grip of my trouble.

Psalm 140:1 חַלְּצֵ֣נִי rescue me

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,

Here: An urgent command form: "pull me out!" The root pictures pulling something free, as you pull off a sandal or pull loose stones from a wall. The speaker asks to be pulled out of a grip he cannot escape on his own.

Proverbs 11:8 נֶחֱלָ֑ץ [is] delivered

The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.

Here: A passive form of a verb meaning to pull off or draw out, as you pull a sandal off a foot. The righteous person is pulled clear of the tight place. No rescuer is named.

Proverbs 11:9 יֵחָלֵֽצוּ׃ they are delivered

With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.

Here: "They are pulled out / delivered." The root means to draw off or pull out, as a sandal is pulled off a foot. Here it pictures someone pulled free of a snare. It repeats the verb of v. 8 ("the righteous is delivered from trouble").

Isaiah 15:4 חֲלֻצֵ֤י [the] armed [men] of

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.

Isaiah 20:2 תַחֲלֹ֖ץ you will take off

the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.

Here: 'Pull off, remove'. It is the ordinary verb for taking off a sandal (also used in Deut 25:9). The supplied gloss 'to rescue' belongs to a different use of the same root and does not apply here.

Isaiah 58:11 יַחֲלִ֑יץ he will strengthen

The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Here: A rare form of a verb tied to soldiers being 'equipped, girded for battle.' Most likely it means God makes your frame strong and ready for action. Ancient translators read it in different ways (see debates).

Lamentations 4:3 חָ֣לְצוּ they draw out

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Here: 'They draw out / bare' the breast: the mother animal presents her teats to her young. The supplied gloss 'to rescue' belongs to another use of the same root and does not fit here. The perfect tense states what jackals always do, a known fact of nature.

Hosea 5:6 חָלַ֖ץ he has withdrawn

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

Here: 'He has pulled himself away.' The form describes a finished act. YHWH has already gone before they arrive. The basic sense is pulling something off or out, as when a sandal is taken off.