Bible word study

Chalats (Strong’s H2502): Meaning in the Bible

Chalats (חָלַץ) is the Hebrew word numbered H2502 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen. In the King James Bible it is translated arm (self), (go, soldier), deliver, draw out.

• Original wordחָלַץ
• Transliterationchâlats
• Pronunciationkhaw-lats'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH2502
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Chalats appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Chalats (H2502) stands behind 44 English renderings in 44 verses across 13 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (12), Numbers (9), Joshua (4).

How the King James Bible renders Chalats, by count

• armed13 of 44 (30 percent)
• delivered8 of 44 (18 percent)
• deliver5 of 44 (11 percent)
• delivereth2 of 44 (5 percent)
• men2 of 44 (5 percent)
• out2 of 44 (5 percent)

Three places to read Chalats

• Leviticus 14:40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
• Joshua 4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
• Psalms 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Chalats in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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