Bible word study

Chalaq (Strong’s H2505): Meaning in the Bible

Chalaq (חָלַק) is the Hebrew word numbered H2505 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate. In the King James Bible it is translated deal, distribute, divide, flatter, give.

• Original wordחָלַק
• Transliterationchâlaq
• Pronunciationkhaw-lak'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH2505
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Chalaq appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Chalaq (H2505) stands behind 65 English renderings in 64 verses across 25 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Joshua (7), Psalms (7), Proverbs (7).

How the King James Bible renders Chalaq, by count

• divided21 of 65 (32 percent)
• divide18 of 65 (28 percent)
• flattereth5 of 65 (8 percent)
• part3 of 65 (5 percent)
• dealt2 of 65 (3 percent)
• distributed2 of 65 (3 percent)

Three places to read Chalaq

• Genesis 14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
• 1 Kings 18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
• Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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 Chalaq 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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