To overturn
הָפַךְStrong’s H2015haphakh (ha-phakh)
Appears in 92 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Haphakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “it has turned”, “turned” and “it was changed”. It appears in 92 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.”
Meaning
- To turn, overthrow, overturn(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Hithpael) · (Hophal) to turn on someone
How it's translated
- it has turned 7
- he turned 6
- and he turned 5
- it was changed 4
- it has been turned 3
- and they will be changed 2
- he overthrew 2
- turn around 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 12
- Psalms 10
- Leviticus 9
- Jeremiah 6
- Exodus 5
- Lamentations 5
28 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 10:16In contextAnd, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
- Genesis 3:24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
- Genesis 19:21And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
- Genesis 19:25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
- Genesis 19:29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
- Exodus 7:15Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
All 92 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
הָפַךְ haphakh · to overturn
1) to turn, overthrow, overturn 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to overturn, overthrow 1a2) to turn, turn about, turn over, turn around 1a3) to change, transform 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to turn oneself, turn, turn back 1b2) to change oneself 1b3) to be perverse 1b4) to be turned, be turned over, be changed, be turned against 1b5) to be reversed 1b6) to be overturned, be overthrown 1b7) to be upturned 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to transform oneself 1c2) to turn this way and that, turn every way 1d) (Hophal) to turn on someone
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “overturn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
O'VERTURN, noun
State of being overturned or subverted; overthrow.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.