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מַחֲלָפָהStrong’s H4253

machlaphah (mach-la-phah)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Machlaphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “plaits of” and “plaits”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.”
Judges 16:13 KJV
Meaning
  1. Braid, lock, plaitof hair
How it's translated
  • plaits of 2
  • plaits 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Judges 3

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מַחֲלָפָה machlaphah · lock

1) braid, lock, plait 1a) of hair

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

LOCK, noun

[Latin floccus, Eng. lock ]

  1. lock in its primary sense, is any thing that fastens; but we now appropriate the word to an instrument composed of a spring, wards, and a bolt of iron or steel, used to fasten doors, chests and the like.
  2. The part of a musket or fowling-piece or other fire-arm, which contains the pan, trigger, etc.
  3. The barrier or works of a canal, which confine the water, consisting of a dam, banks or walls, with two gates or pairs of gates, which may be opened or shut at pleasure.
  4. A grapple in wrestling.
All definitions and other forms of “lock”
  1. Any inclosure.
  2. A tuft of hair; a plexus of wool, hay or other like substance; a flock; a ringlet of hair.

LOCK'-KEEPER, noun

One who attends the locks of a canal.

    LOCK'-PADDLE, noun

    A small sluse that serves to fill and empty a lock

      LOCK'-SIL, noun

      An angular piece of timber at the bottom of a lock against which the gates shut.

        LOCK'-WEIR, noun

        A paddle-weir, in canals, an over-fall behind the upper gates, by which the waste water of the upper pound is let down through the paddle-holes into the chamber of the lock

          LOCK, verb transitive

          1. To fasten with a particular instrument; as, to lock a door; to lock a trunk.
          2. To shut up or confine, as with a lock; as, to be locked in a prison. lock the secret in your breast.
          3. To close fast.
          4. To embrace closely; as, to lock one in the arms.
          5. To furnish with locks, as a canal.
          6. To confine; to restrain.
          7. In fencing, to seize the sword-arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, after closing the parade, shell to shell, in order to disarm him.

          LOCK, verb intransitive

          1. To become fast.
          2. To unite closely by mutual insertion; as, they lock into each other.

          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.