Helpless
חֵֽלְכָהStrong’s H2489chelekah (che-le-kah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chelekah is the Hebrew word usually translated “unfortunate person”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.”
Meaning
- Hapless, poor, unfortunate person
How it's translated
- for an unfortunate person 1
- an unfortunate person 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חֵֽלְכָה chelekah · helpless
hapless, poor, unfortunate person
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “helpless” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HELP'LESS, adjective
Without help in one's self; destitute of the power or means to succor or relieve one's self. A person is rendered helpless by weakness, or want of means.
- Destitute of support or assistance.
- Admitting no help; irremediable. [Not used.]
- Unsupplied; destitute.
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.