חֵלֶף
chêleph · H2500 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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in return for
Relational linking two events indicating that the first event takes place as a consequence of and as a compensation for the second
ExamplesNumbers 18:21 “To the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel as an inheritance, in return for their service which they perform, the service of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 18:31 ‘You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀντί antí · G473 · instead, for, on behalf of
- The Hebrew חֵלֶף (chêleph, H2500) and Greek ἀντί (antí, G473) are cross-linguistic equivalents, both functioning as prepositions denoting substitution or exchange ("for," "instead of," "in place of"); Greek translators consistently rendered the Hebrew term with ἀντί, reflecting their shared core function of marking replacement or substitution.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Occurrence002002003
- The word marks a compensatory exchange taking place, as the Levites receive the tithe "in return for" the service they perform at the tent of meeting (Numbers 18:21, 18:31).
- Names of Locations003001010
- This code is inherited from the domain listing shared with this word's homograph, the place name Heleph (חֶלֶף (Cheleph, H2501)); the "in return for" sense attested here does not itself name a location.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2500. cheleph I. חֵ֫לֶף noun [masculine] exchange, only construct, as preposition in…
I. חֵ֫לֶף noun [masculine] exchange, only construct, as preposition in return for (so הֲלַף, , common in Aramaic e.g. Gen 4:23 ᵑ6 ᵑ7 for Hebrew תַּחַת) — ׳ח עֲבֹדָתָם (עֲבֹדַתְכֶם) Num 18:21, Num 18:31 (both P).
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
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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