To rescue
חָלַץStrong’s H2502chalats (cha-lats)
Appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalats is the Hebrew word usually translated “equipped”, “armed of” and “equipped of”. It appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:”
Meaning
- To draw off or out, withdraw(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel)
- To equip (for war), arm for war, rescue, be rescued(Qal) equipped (participle) · (Niphal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- equipped 5
- armed of 3
- equipped of 3
- and the armed 3
- the equipped 3
- he rescued me 2
- they may be rescued 2
- and people will tear out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 12
- Numbers 9
- Joshua 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Isaiah 3
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 14:43And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
- Numbers 31:3And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
- Numbers 31:5So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
- Numbers 32:17But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
- Numbers 32:20And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
- Numbers 32:21And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
All 44 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חָלַץ chalats · to rescue
1) to draw off or out, withdraw 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to draw, draw off 1a2) to withdraw 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be delivered 1b2) to be saved 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to pull out, tear out 1c2) to rescue, deliver, set free 1c3) to take away, plunder
חָלַץ chalats · to arm
1) to equip (for war), arm for war, rescue, be rescued 1a) (Qal) equipped (participle) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be equipped 1b2) to go equipped 1b3) to be armed 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to make strong, brace up 1c2) to invigorate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rescue” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RESCUE, verb transitive
res'cu.[Latin re and quatio.]
- “So the people rescued Jonathan that he died not” 1 Samuel 14:45
All definitions and other forms of “rescue”
RES'CUE, noun
[See the Verb.]
- Deliverance from restraint, violence or danger, by force or by the interference of an agent.
- In law, rescue or rescous, the forcible retaking of a lawful distress from the distrainor, or from the custody of the law; also, the forcible liberation of a defendant from the custody of the officer, in which cases, the remedy is by writ of rescous.
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.