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title: חָלָק — smooth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָלָק (2509), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: smooth. BDB 1906: adj. smooth. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָלָק

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«חָלָק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **smooth** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 2509 · **BDB:** חָלָק

### Glosses

smooth (3); of.flattering.\[words\] (2); flattering.\[words\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

smooth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2509/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. smooth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2509/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. smooth— lit. אִישׁ חָלָק Gn 27:11 (J), smooth man (opp. אישׁ שָׂעִר); הָהָר הֶחָלָק Jos 11:17; 12:7 the bald mt. (both D); southern limit of Jos.’s conquest, identif. dub.; (1) white cliffs 8 m. S. of Dead Sea, and (2) Mt. Mâdara SW. from Pass es-Ṣafâ are proposed, v. Di.; as subst. חַלְּקֵי־נַחַל Is 57:6 (v. i. חֵלָק, 4) smooth (stones) of a brook-bed (ravine, wady), i.e. thou worshippest common round stones (contempt., v. Che Di). fig. of mouth uttering smooth words וְחָלָק מִשֶּׁמֶן חִכָּהּ Pr 5:3 cf. 26:28. as subst. = flattery מִקְסַם חָלָק Ez 12:24 divination of flattery or of a flatterer.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָלָק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2509/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 12:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.4/)

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יַכְרֵ֣ת יְ֭הוָה כָּל־שִׂפְתֵ֣י חֲלָק֑וֹת לָ֝שׁ֗וֹן מְדַבֶּ֥רֶת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* may.he.cut.off Yahweh all \[the\].lips of.flattering.\[words\] a.tongue \[which\].speaks great.\[things\]

*JPS 1917:* May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things!

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[Psalms 73:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.18/)

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אַ֣ךְ בַּ֭חֲלָקוֹת תָּשִׁ֣ית לָ֑מוֹ הִ֝פַּלְתָּ֗ם לְמַשּׁוּאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* surely on smooth.\[places\] you.set (to) them you make.them.fall to deceptions

*JPS 1917:* Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin.

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