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חֶלֶד

cheled · H2465 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. world

    Primarily used in poetry: the earth as opposed to the sky, with special focus on the area that is inhabited by humans

    Examples

    Psalm 17:14 From people by Your hand, LORD, From people of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose belly You fill with Your treasure; They are satisfied with children, And leave their abundance to their babies.

    Psalm 49:1 Hear this, all peoples; Listen, all inhabitants of the world,

  2. lifetime

    The timespan that a human being is on this world

    Examples

    Job 11:17 “Your life would be brighter than noonday; Darkness would be like the morning.

    Psalm 39:5 “Behold, You have made my days like hand widths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Certainly all mankind standing is a mere breath. Selah

    Psalm 89:47 Remember what my lifespan is; For what futility You have created all the sons of mankind!

How it’s used In 5 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

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
דּוֹר dôwr · H1755 · dwelling, generation
דּוֹר overlaps with חֶלֶד in the sense of 'age' or temporal period, referring to a span of time or generation.
In the other Testament 1 word
αἰών aiṓn · G165 · age, era, universe
Greek αἰών is the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew חֶלֶד in its sense of 'age' or 'world,' sharing the semantic range of temporal duration and cosmic extent.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Land001002002
The noun names the world or realm of the living, as the psalmist speaks of "people of the world, whose portion is in this life" (Psalm 17:14).
Time002002002010
The word also names the brief span of a person's lifetime, as every person "walks around as a fleeting shadow" through their short lifespan (Psalm 39:6; Job 11:17).
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חֶלֶדcheled · H2465חֹלֶד chôled · H2467 · mongoose, weasel, marbled polecat · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2465. cheled חֶ֫לֶד noun [masculine]Job 11:17 duration, world (= αιὤν) (Arabic perpetual…
H2465. cheled
חֶ֫לֶד noun [masculine]Job 11:17 duration, world (= αιὤν) (Arabic perpetual duration, eternity) — absolute ׳ח Psa 17:14; חָ֑לֶד Job 11:17 Job 11:2t. + Isa 38:11 Che De, followed by Manuscript Babylonian etc. (Baer חָ֑דֶל); suffix חֶלְדִּי Psa 39:6; = duration of life Job 11:17; Psa 39:6 (|| יָמַי), מֶהחָֿ֑לֶד אֲנִי זְכֹר Psa 89:48 of what duration I am Dr§ 189. 2, or (אדני for אני) what is life (?) Hi Ew Now and others; world (= αιὤν, not Κόσμος) Psa 17:14; Psa 49:2 (ח ׳ישׁבי || כלעֿמים), compare Isa 38:11 (see above; || הַחַיִּים אֶרֶץ).
II. חלד (√ of following; compare Late Hebrew חלד dig, or hollow out, Aramaic creep, crawl).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Land2 occurrencesTime3 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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