Word

מַחְלָפָה

machlâphâh · H4253 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

Part of a person's hair that coils or hangs together, whether woven into a braid or not (lock, braid (of hair))

Examples
Judges 16:13 Then Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have toyed with me and told me lies; tell me how you may be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my hair with the web [and fasten it with the pin, then I will be weak like any other man.”
Judges 16:19 And she made him sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to humble him, and his strength left him.

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

2 occurrences in 1 groups

רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 2

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 1 groups

שֶׁבַעseven 2

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

גָּלַחto shave (oneself) 1
אָרַגweaver, to weave 1

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

People001001003: מַחְלָפָה names a lock or braid of hair, as in Samson's "seven locks" that Delilah wove and later had shaved off (Judges 16:13, 19); the People domain reflects that hair is classed here as a bodily feature of a person rather than as clothing or a separate object.

Word family 7 words

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

חָלַף châlaph · H2498 · to come up, to be renewed, to pass through · 28×חֲלִיפָה chălîyphâh · H2487 · set, shift, relief · 12×חֲלַף chălaph · H2499 · pass · 4×חֵלֶף chêleph · H2500 · in return for · 2×מַחְלָפָהmachlâphâh · H4253חֲלוֹף chălôwph · H2475 · helpless people, destitute people · 1×מַחֲלָף machălâph · H4252 · knife, dish · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4253. machalaphah [מַחֲלָפָה] noun feminine plait (of hair; so called from intertwining,…

H4253. machalaphah
[מַחֲלָפָה] noun feminine plait (of hair; so called from intertwining, passing through each other, of the strands) — Plural construct ראֹשִׁי מַחְלְפוֺת Jdg 16:13, compare Jdg 16:19.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

People2 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