Lexicon chalilah: far be it! Original Word: חָלִ֫ילָהPart of Speech: Interjection Transliteration: chalilah Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lee'-law) Short Definition: far NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom chalalDefinitionfar be it! NASB Translationfar (19), forbid (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs חָלִ֫ילָה substantive with ה locative, used as exclamation literally ad profanum! i.e. far be it (for me, thee, etc.) ! (see Ba NB 136) — ׳ח Genesis 44:7 17t., חָלִלָה Genesis 18:25b + 2t. — alone, 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Samuel 20:2; elsewhere with לְ person: Genesis 18:25b (J), 1 Samuel 2:30; 1 Samuel 20:9; 1 Samuel 22:15; + מִן and infinitive of act deprecated Genesis 18:25; a Genesis 44:7,17 (all J), Joshua 24:16 (E), 1 Samuel 12:23; 2 Samuel 23:17; + מִמֶּנּוּ ל (peculiarly) Joshua 22:29 (P; = from it, even to rebel); + אִם (= surely not) 2 Samuel 20:20 ( ׳ח ׳ח), Job 27:5; strengthened idiomatically by מיהוה, ׳לִי מִיּ׳ח followed by מִן and infinitive 1 Samuel 26:11; 1 Kings 21:3 + 2 Samuel 23:17 (read מיהוה, ᵐ5L ᵑ6 ᵑ7) = 1 Chronicles 11:19 ( מאלהי) followed by אִם 1 Samuel 24:7; לָאֵל מֵרֶשַׁע ׳ח Job 34:10. Strong's be far, God forbid Or chalilah {khaw-lee'-law}; a directive from chalal; literal for a profaned thing; used (interj.) Far be it! -- be far, (X God) forbid. see HEBREW chalal |
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