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title: חָלָק — smooth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָלָק (2514), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: smooth. BDB 1906: adj. smooth. With 1 verse 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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2514 · **BDB:** חָלָק

### Glosses

flattering.\[words\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

smooth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2514/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. smooth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2514/#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, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָלָק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2514/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 11:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.11.32/)

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וּמַרְשִׁיעֵ֣י בְרִ֔ית יַחֲנִ֖יף בַּחֲלַקּ֑וֹת וְעַ֛ם יֹדְעֵ֥י אֱלֹהָ֖יו יַחֲזִ֥קוּ וְעָשֽׂוּ׃

*Word for word:* and \[those.who\].act.wickedly of.\[the\].covenant he.will.pollute with flattering.\[words\] and a.people \[which\].know God (of).its they.will.display.strength and they.will.act

*JPS 1917:* And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall be corrupt by blandishments; but the people that know their God shall show strength, and prevail.

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