Rust
חֶלְאָהStrong’s H2457chelah (chel-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chelah is the Hebrew word usually translated “rust its”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.”
Meaning
- Rust, scum
How it's translated
- rust its 4
- and rust its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 24:11Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
- Ezekiel 24:12She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
Hebrew dictionary
חֶלְאָה chelah · rust
rust, scum
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rust” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RUST, noun
[Gr. probably from its color, and allied to ruddy, red, as Latin rubigo is from rubeo. See Ruddy.]
- The oxyd of a metal; a substance composed of oxygen combined with a metal, and forming a rough coat on its surface.
- Loss of power by inactivity, as metals lose their brightness and smoothness when not used.
- Any foul matter contracted; as rust on corn or salted meat.
- Foul extraneous matter; as sacred truths cleared from the rust of human mixtures.
All definitions and other forms of “rust”
- A disease in grain, a kind of dust which gathers on the stalks and leaves.
RUST, verb intransitive
- To contract rust; to be oxydized and contract a roughness on the surface.
- To degenerate in idleness; to become dull by inaction.
- To gather dust or extraneous matter.
RUST, verb transitive
- To cause to contract rust
- To impair by time and inactivity.
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.