הֲלֹם
hălôm · H1988 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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here
A reference to the location of the speaker
ExamplesGenesis 16:13 Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees me”; for she said, “Have I even seen Him here and lived after He saw me?”
Exodus 3:5 Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
Judges 18:3 When they were near the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite; and they turned aside there and said to him, “Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what do you have here?”
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in all directions, hither and tither
A reference to an imprecise location away from the speaker
Examples1 Samuel 14:16 Now Saul’s watchmen in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude dissolved; they went here and there.
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thus far
A reference to the present as the temporary endpoint of an event begun in the past
Examples2 Samuel 7:18 Then David the king came in and sat before the LORD, and he said, “Who am I, Lord GOD, and who are the members of my household, that You have brought me this far?
1 Chronicles 17:16 Then King David came in and sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, LORD God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far?
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until 2
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Near synonyms 1 word
- הֵנָּה hênnâh · H2008 · they, here
- Both are Hebrew spatial and temporal deictic adverbs meaning "here" or "hither," capable of substituting for one another in deictic expressions.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὧδε hōde · G5602 · here, in this, in this case
- Greek ὧδε renders Hebrew הֲלֹם as the standard deictic locative adverb indicating proximal spatial reference ('here/hither'), with both terms functioning as unmarked indicators of location relative to the speaker or narrative viewpoint.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Spatial Referents003002005
- הֲלֹם functions as a locative adverb meaning 'here' or 'hither,' pointing to the immediate place of speaking, as Hagar wonders whether she has truly seen God here.
- Temporal Referents003002006
- The word also carries a temporal sense of 'to this point,' as in expressions asking who has brought someone here up to now.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1988. halom הֲלֹם adverb of place, hither (Arabic hither!) — Exo 3:5 הֲלֹם אַלתִּֿקְרַב…
הֲלֹם adverb of place, hither (Arabic hither!) — Exo 3:5 הֲלֹם אַלתִּֿקְרַב approach not hither, Jdg 18:3; Jdg 20:7; 1Sa 10:22; 1Sa 14:16 and lo, the camp melted away וַהֲלֹם וַיֵּלֶךְ read with ᵐ5 (ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν) Th We Dr וַהֲלֹם הֲלֹם hither and thither i.e. in different directions (compare וָהֵנָּה הֵנָּה Jos 8:20), Joshua 8:36; Joshua 8:38; Rth 2:14; הֲלֹם עַד figurative hitherto, thus far (i.e. to this point of dignity and greatness) 2Sa 7:18 (= 1Ch 17:16). Psa 73:10, if text be sound, הֲלֹם must mean thither (that is, after the persons described Psa 73:3); but such sense questionable; read probably with Houb La for לָ֑חֶם יַשְׂבִּעֵמוֺ הלם, עמו ישיב satisfies them with bread: compare Che HupNow. Gen 16:13 = here; but here also text is dubious: v Di. Jdg 14:15 read הֲלֹם for הֲלֹא: see הֲ
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Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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