Lexical Summary chalash: to be weak or prostrate Original Word: חָלַשׁTransliteration: chalash Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lash') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be weak or prostrate Meaning: to prostrate, to overthrow, decay Strong's Concordance discomfit, waste away, weaken A primitive root; to prostrate; by implication, to overthrow, decay -- discomfit, waste away, weaken. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2522. chalash [חָלַשׁ] verb 1. be weak, prostrate. 2 (si vera lectio) weaken, disable, prostrate (Aramaic חֲלַשׁ be weak; , חַלָּשׁ weak, as in Hebrew; Arabic poor (Frey)) — Qal Imperfect וַיַּחֲלשׁ Exodus 17:13, וַיֶּחֱלָ֑שׁ Job 14:10; Participle חוֺלֵשׁ Isaiah 14:12; 1 ויח ימות ׳וגבר Job 14:10 but man dieth and is prostrate. 2 disable, prostrate, followed by accusative of person Exodus 17:13 (E; point as Hiph`il ?); followed by עַל person (strangely) Isaiah 14:12. |