To weaken
חָלַשׁStrong’s H2522chalash (cha-lash)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalash is the Hebrew word usually translated “defeated”, “was weak” and “o defeater”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.”
Meaning
- To be weak, be prostrate(Qal) to be prostrate
- To weaken, disable, prostrate(Qal) to disable, prostrate
How it's translated
- and he defeated 1
- and he was weak 1
- o defeater 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חָלַשׁ chalash · to weaken
1) to be weak, be prostrate 1a) (Qal) to be prostrate 2) to weaken, disable, prostrate 2a) (Qal) to disable, prostrate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “weaken” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEAKEN, verb transitive
- To lessen the strength of, or to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; as, to weaken the body; to weaken the mind; to weaken the hands of the magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.
- To reduce in strength or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
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.