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title: חָלָק — smooth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָלָק (2510), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 2510 · **BDB:** חָלָק

### Glosses

Halak (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

smooth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2510/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. smooth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2510/#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, 2 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 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/1495/2510/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 11:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.11.17/)

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מִן־הָהָ֤ר הֶֽחָלָק֙ הָעוֹלֶ֣ה שֵׂעִ֔יר וְעַד־בַּ֤עַל גָּד֙ בַּ֤עַל גָּד֙ בְּבִקְעַ֣ת הַלְּבָנ֔וֹן תַּ֖חַת הַר־חֶרְמ֑וֹן וְאֵ֤ת כָּל־מַלְכֵיהֶם֙ לָכַ֔ד וַיַּכֵּ֖ם וַיְמִיתֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* from the mountain (the) Halak \[which\].goes up Seir and to Baal Gad in the.valley of.(the) Lebanon under the.mountain of.Hermon and (et) all kings their he.captured and he struck.them.down and he killed.them

*JPS 1917:* from the bare mountain, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon; and all their kings he took, and smote them, and put them to death.

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[Joshua 12:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.7/)

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וְאֵ֣לֶּה מַלְכֵ֣י הָאָ֡רֶץ אֲשֶׁר֩ הִכָּ֨ה יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַ וּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל בְּעֵ֤בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן֙ יָ֔מָּה מִבַּ֤עַל גָּד֙ בַּ֤עַל גָּד֙ בְּבִקְעַ֣ת הַלְּבָנ֔וֹן וְעַד־הָהָ֥ר הֶחָלָ֖ק הָעֹלֶ֣ה שֵׂעִ֑ירָה וַיִּתְּנָ֨הּ יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַ לְשִׁבְטֵ֧י יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל יְרֻשָּׁ֖ה כְּמַחְלְקֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.kings of the.land whom he.defeated Joshua and the.people of.Israel on the.other.side of the.Jordan westward from Baal Gad in the.valley of.(the) Lebanon and to the mountain (the) Halak \[which\].goes up to Seir and he gave.it Joshua to the.tribes of.Israel a.possession according to their.divisions

*JPS 1917:* And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel smote beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the bare mountain, that goeth up to Seir; and Joshua gave it unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

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