חָלִילָה
châlîylâh · H2486 · Hebrew · 21 occurrences
Meanings
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God forbid!, Never, Far be it!
Exclamation expressing a strong conclusion, rejecting the event to which it refers to as inappropriate behavior
ExamplesGenesis 18:25 “Far be it from You to do such a thing, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”
Genesis 44:7 And they said to him, “Why does my lord say such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
Genesis 44:17 But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The word is an exclamatory rejection expressing strong moral disapproval, as Abraham protests, "Far be it from You to do such a thing" when pleading for Sodom (Genesis 18:25), and Judah's brothers likewise, "Far be it from your servants to do such a thing" (Genesis 44:7, 44:17).
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2486. chalilah חָלִ֫ילָה substantive with ה locative, used as exclamation literally ad…
חָלִ֫ילָה substantive with ה locative, used as exclamation literally ad profanum! i.e. far be it (for me, thee, etc.) ! (see BaNB 136) — ׳ח Gen 44:7 Gen 44:17t., חָלִלָה Gen 18:25b + 2t. — alone, 1Sa 14:45; 1Sa 20:2; elsewhere with לְ person: Gen 18:25b (J), 1Sa 2:30; 1Sa 20:9; 1Sa 22:15; + מִן and infinitive of act deprecated Gen 18:25; a Gen 44:7, Gen 44:17 (all J), Jos 24:16 (E), 1Sa 12:23; 2Sa 23:17; + ל מִמֶּנּוּ (peculiarly) Jos 22:29 (P; = from it, even to rebel); + אִם (= surely not) 2Sa 20:20 (׳ח ׳ח), Job 27:5; strengthened idiomatically by מִיּ׳ח ׳לִי מיהוה, followed by מִן and infinitive 1Sa 26:11; 1Ki 21:3 + 2Sa 23:17 (read ᵐ5 מיהוה,L ᵑ7 ᵑ6) = 1Ch 11:19 (מאלהי) followed by אִם 1Sa 24:7; ׳ח מֵרֶשַׁע לָאֵל Job 34:10.
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
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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