chalaph (to pass)

Meaning

To pass on or away, pass through, pass by, go through, grow up, change, to go on from(Qal) · (Piel) to cause to pass, change · (Hiph)

How it's translated

and he changed 2
and he has changed 1
and you changed 1
and change 1
he will substitute it 1
and she pierced 1
and you will pass on 1
it passed over 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Job 7
Isaiah 7
Genesis 4
Psalms 3
Leviticus 1
Judges 1

10 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 31:41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 35:2Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Genesis 41:14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
Leviticus 27:10He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
Judges 5:26She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
1 Samuel 10:3Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

All 27 verses, by book

Genesis 4: 31:7 31:41 35:2 41:14
Leviticus 1: 27:10
Judges 1: 5:26
1 Samuel 1: 10:3
2 Samuel 1: 12:20
Job 7: 4:15 9:11 9:26 11:10 14:7 20:24 29:20
Psalms 3: 90:5 90:6 102:26
Song of Solomon 1: 2:11
Isaiah 7: 2:18 8:8 9:10 21:1 24:5 40:31 41:1
Habakkuk 1: 1:11

Hebrew dictionary

חָלַף chalaph · to pass

1) to pass on or away, pass through, pass by, go through, grow up, change, to go on from 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pass on quickly 1a2) to pass away (vanish) 1a3) to come on anew, sprout again (of grass) 1a4) to pass through 1a5) to overstep, transgress 1b) (Piel) to cause to pass, change 1c) (Hiph) 1c1) to change, substitute, alter, change for better, renew 1c2) to show newness (of tree) Aramaic equivalent: cha.laph (חֲלַף "to pass" H2499)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “pass” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

P'ASS, verb intransitive

[Eng. pat, and as a noun, a pass a defile, an ambling, pace; passen, to be fit, to suit; Latin patior, whence passion, to suffer, and peto, competo, in the sense of fit; Gr. to walk or step, to suffer; The word pass coincides with Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, to extend; n being casual, the original word was pado.

To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another.
To move from one state to another; to alter or change, or to be changed in condition; as, to pass from health to sickness; to pass from just to unjust.
To vanish; to disappear; to be lost.
To be spent; to go on or away progressively.

All definitions and other forms of “pass”

To die; to depart from life. [Little used.]
To be in any state; to undergo; with under; as, to pass under the rod.
To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.
To be current; to gain reception or to be generally received.
To be regarded; to be received in opinion or estimation.
To occur; to be present; to take place; as, to notice what passes in the mind.
To be done.
To determine; to give judgment or sentence.
To thrust; to make a push in fencing or fighting.
To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected.
To move through any duct or opening; as, substances in the stomach that will not pass not be converted into ailment.
To percolate; to be secreted; as juices that pass from the glands into the mouth.
To be in a tolerable state.
To be transferred from one owner to another.
To go beyond bounds.
To run or extend; as a line or other thing.
To be spent; to be lost.

P'ASS, verb transitive

To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness.

To go through or over; as, to pass a river.
To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.
To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart.
To cause to move hastily.
To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A to B by deed; to pass a note or bill.
To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter.
To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works.
To procure or cause to go.
To put an end to.
To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention.
To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.
To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.
To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill.
To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.
To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy.
To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.
To surpass; to excel; to exceed.
To thrust; to make a push in fencing.
To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault.
To neglect; to disregard.
To omit; to overlook or disregard.

P'ASS, noun

A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as a pass between mountains.

A passage; a road.
Permission to pass to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport.
An order for sending vagrants or impotent persons to their place of abode.
In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as, to make a pass at an antagonist.
State; condition or extreme case; extremity.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.