To pass
חֲלַףStrong’s H2499chalaph (cha-laph)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalaph is the Aramaic word usually translated “pass” and “let them pass”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.”
Meaning
- To pass by, pass over(Pe) to pass by, pass over
How it's translated
- they will pass 3
- let them pass 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:23In contextAnd whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
- Daniel 4:25In contextThat they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 4:32In contextAnd they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Aramaic dictionary
חֲלַף chalaph · to pass
1) to pass by, pass over 1a) (Pe) to pass by, pass over
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.