חָלַף châlaph — properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change
Translated in the KJV as abolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout.
a primitive root; properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change.
châlaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Infinitive construct 1
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Perfect (qatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1Imperative 1
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 2
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›
