הֶפֶךְ
hephek · H2016 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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difference, opposite, perverseness
Literally: upside down; hence: state in which a person's behavior is totally different from that of their peers
ExamplesIsaiah 29:16 You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, That what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”; Or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?
Ezekiel 16:34 “So it is the opposite for you from those women in your obscene practices, in that you are not approached for prostitution, and in the fact that you pay a prostitute’s fee, and no fee is paid to you; so you are the opposite.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֶםyour 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- הֶפֶךְ denotes something contrary, reversed, or opposite, as at Isaiah 29:16 — "You turn things around!" — and Ezekiel 16:34 — "it is the opposite for you from those women."
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2016. hephek הֶ֫פֶךְ noun masculine the contrary, contrariness, perversity; — absolute…
הֶ֫פֶךְ noun masculine the contrary, contrariness, perversity; — absolute ׳ה Eze 16:34; הֶ֑פֶךְ Eze 16:34; suffix הַפְכְּכֶם Isa 29:16 (see Baer); —
1 the contrary, opposite thing מִןהַֿנָּשִׁים הֶפֶךְ וַיְהִיבָֿךְ Eze 16:34 & there hath occurred in thee the contrary from other women; Eze 16:34 לְהֶ֑פֶךְ וַתְּהִי so thou hast become the contrary.
2 הַפְכְּכֶם Isa 29:16 Oh, your perversity !
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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