Strong's Hebrew · H2502

חָלַץ

châlats · khaw-lats'

arm (self), (go, ready) armed ([idiom] man, soldier), deliver, draw out, make fat, loose, (ready) prepared, put off, take away, withdraw self.

Definition

to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 44 times in Scripture

Numbers 32:29

And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

Numbers 32:20

Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

Numbers 32:21

and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,

Numbers 31:3

So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.

Numbers 31:5

So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.

Leviticus 14:40

he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

Leviticus 14:43

If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house has been scraped and replastered,

Psalms 60:5

Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

Numbers 32:27

But your servants are equipped for war, and every man will cross over to the battle before the LORD, just as our lord says.”

Numbers 32:17

But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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