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Lexicon :: Strong's H2015 - hāp̄aḵ

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הָפַךְ
Transliteration
hāp̄aḵ
Pronunciation
haw-fak'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 512

Strong’s Definitions

הָפַךְ hâphak, haw-fak'; a primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert:—× become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x

The KJV translates Strong's H2015 in the following manner: turn (57x), overthrow (13x), overturn (5x), change (3x), turn... (6x), become (1x), came (1x), converted (1x), gave (1x), make (1x), perverse (1x), perverted (1x), retired (1x), tumbled (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x
The KJV translates Strong's H2015 in the following manner: turn (57x), overthrow (13x), overturn (5x), change (3x), turn... (6x), become (1x), came (1x), converted (1x), gave (1x), make (1x), perverse (1x), perverted (1x), retired (1x), tumbled (1x).
  1. to turn, overthrow, overturn

    1. (Qal)

      1. to overturn, overthrow

      2. to turn, turn about, turn over, turn around

      3. to change, transform

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to turn oneself, turn, turn back

      2. to change oneself

      3. to be perverse

      4. to be turned, be turned over, be changed, be turned against

      5. to be reversed

      6. to be overturned, be overthrown

      7. to be upturned

    3. (Hithpael)

      1. to transform oneself

      2. to turn this way and that, turn every way

    4. (Hophal) to turn on someone

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
הָפַךְ hâphak, haw-fak'; a primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert:—× become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
STRONGS H2015: Abbreviations
הָפַךְ verb turn, overturn (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic הֲפַךְ, Kfph, Arabic أَفَكَ WSG 47, Assyrian abâku, apâku DlW) —
Qal Perfect Leviticus 13:3 + 13 times; וְהָפַךְ consecutive 2 Kings 21:13; Job 34:25; 3rd person masculine plural הָֽפְכוּ Psalm 78:9; הֲפַכְתֶּם Amos 6:12; Jeremiah 23:36, etc.; Imperfect יַהֲפֹךְ Lamentations 3:3; Jeremiah 13:23; וַיַּהֲפֹךְ Genesis 19:25 + 6 times; וַיַּהֲפָךְֿ 1 Samuel 10:9; suffix וַיַּהַפְכֵהוּ Judges 7:13; 3rd person feminine singular וַתַּהֲפֹךְ 2 Chronicles 9:12; אֶהְפֹּךְ Zephaniah 3:9; וַיַּהַפְכוּ 1 Samuel 25:12; Job 12:15; Imperative הֲפֹךְ 1 Kings 22:34 2 Chronicles 18:33; Infinitive absolute הָפוֺךְ Proverbs 12:7; construct הֲפֹךְ Genesis 19:29; 1 Chronicles 19:3; suffix הָפְכִּי Genesis 19:21; הָפְכָהּ 2 Samuel 10:3; — on הַפְכְּכֶם (so Baer, which see) Isaiah 29:16, see הֶפֶךְ; Participle active הֹפֵךְ Amos 5:8; הַהֹפְכִי Psalm 114:8; plural הַהֹפְכִים Amos 5:7; passive הֲפוּכָה Hosea 7:8; Lamentations 4:6. —
1. transitive
a. turn, turn about, turn over, with accusative: e.g. turn the back (עֹרֶף) Joshua 7:8 (JE); a dish (צַלַּחַת) עַל־פָּנֶיהָ 2 Kings 21:13; the hand, & so the horses of a chariot 1 Kings 22:34 2 Chronicles 18:33; 2 Kings 9:23; but also (followed by בְּ) of hostility Lamentations 3:3; turn a cake (passive) Hosea 7:8; of י׳, שָׂפָה בְּרוּרָה ה׳ Zephaniah 3:9 i.e. restore speech of a pure kind, followed by אֶלעַֿמִּים; לֵב אַחֵר 1 Samuel 10:9 another heart, followed by לוֺ; turn a wind (רוּחַ; i.e. bring from different quarter) Exodus 10:19 (J).
b. overturn, overthrow, followed by accusative Sodom, etc., Genesis 19:21, 25, 29 (J), Deuteronomy 29:22; Jeremiah 20:16; Lamentations 4:6 (compare וגו׳ מַהְפֵּכַת Amos 4:11 see below; also הֲפֵכָה, [מַהְמֵּכָה]); city of Ammon 2 Samuel 10:3 = 1 Chronicles 19:3 (object omitted); mountains Job 9:5; Job 28:9; throne Haggai 2:22 (|| הִשְׁמִיד), chariots Haggai 2:22; tent (אֹהֶל), לְמַ֫עְלָה ה׳ Judges 7:3; object earth (ה׳ = devastate) Job 12:15; wicked men Amos 4:11 (וְאֶת־ אֶת־סְדֹס אֱלֹהִים כְּמַהְפֵּכַת בָּכֶם הָפַכְּתִּי יֲמֹרָה) Proverbs 12:7; Job 34:25 (object omitted).
c. turn = change, transform
(1) followed by accusative = alter; a colour (עֵינוֺ) Leviticus 13:55 (P); skin Jeremiah 13:33; bed (מִשְׁכָּבוֺ see מ׳; Che his lying down) Psalm 41:4 i.e. restore to health;
(2) pervert דִבְרֵי אֱלֹהִים Jeremiah 23:36;
(3) followed by accusative with Infinitive Psalm 105:25 he turned their heart to hate his people;
(4) turn to, into, followed by two accusative Leviticus 13:10; Psalm 114:8 rock into pool of water; usually followed by accusative + לְ, Psalm 66:6 sea into dry land, Psalm 78:44 rivers into blood, compare Psalm 105:29; Jeremiah 31:13 mourning into joy, so Psalm 30:12; Amos 5:7 justice into wormwood, compare Amos 6:12; Amos 8:10 feasts into mourning; Deuteronomy 23:6 = Nehemiah 13:2 curse into blessing; Amos 5:8 death-shade into morning.
2. intransitive
a. turn, turn back, Judges 20:39, 41; 2 Kings 5:26; Psalm 78:9; 2 Chronicles 9:12; followed by לדרך 1 Samuel 25:12;
b. turn = change, change into, followed by predicate adjective לָבָן ה׳ turn white Leviticus 13:3, 4, 13, 20 (all P).
Niph. Perfect נֶהְפַּךְ Exodus 7:15 + 10 times; נֶהְפָּ֑ךְ Job 20:14; וְנֶהְפַּךְ consecutive Leviticus 13:16; נֶהֶפְכָה Lamentations 5:2; 3rd person masculine plural נֶהְפְּכוּ Job 19:19 + 3 times, נֶהֶפְכוּ 1 Samuel 4:19; Daniel 10:16, וְנֶהֶפְכוּ consecutive Exodus 7:17; Isaiah 34:9, etc.; Imperfect יֵהָפֵךְ Isaiah 60:5; Joel 3:4; וַיֵּהָפֵךְ Exodus 14:5; Isaiah 63:10; 2nd person masculine singular תֵּהָפֵךְ Job 30:21; Ezekiel 4:8; וַיֵּהָֽפְכוּ Exodus 7:20; Infinitive absolute נַהֲפוֺךְ Esther 9:1; Participle נֶהְפָּךְ Proverbs 17:20; נֶהְפָּ֑כֶת Jonah 3:4; —
1. reflexive & intransitive.
a. turn oneself, turn, turn back (compare Qal 2 a) Joshua 8:20 (JE); turn aside Psalm 78:57; turn from side to side Ezekiel 4:8; pains turned upon (עַל) her 1 Samuel 4:19 (i.e. came suddenly upon her) compare Daniel 10:16; turn against followed by בְּ Job 19:19; turn to (ward), followed by עַל, Isaiah 60:5 (|| בא לְ).
b. turn = change (oneself) followed by predicate adjective Leviticus 13:25 (P); followed by predicate noun (?), vine turns into degenerate plant Jeremiah 2:21; no predicate expressed Job 20:14 (compare Job 20:14b); of heart turned in compassion Hosea 11:8 (|| נִכְמְרוּ נִחוּמָ֑י), in sorrow, distress, Lamentations 1:20; of heart changed, so as to be favourably disposed toward (followed by אֶל) Exodus 14:5 (J) = change of mind; followed by לְ, of plague spots changing colour Leviticus 13:16, 17 (P); rod changing to serpent Exodus 7:15 (P); faces to paleness Jeremiah 30:6; dance to mourning Lamentations 5:15; comeliness to corruption Daniel 10:8; וַיֵּהָפֵךְ לָהֶם לְאוֺיֵב Isaiah 63:10; Job 30:21.
c. be perverse, only participle used substantive בִּלְשׁוֹנוֹ נֶהפָּךְ Proverbs 17:20 he that is perverse with his tongue.
2. passive,
a. be turned, turned over to followed by לְ, an inheritance to strangers Lamentations 5:2.
b. be reversed Esther 9:1.
c. be turned, changed, followed by לְ, waters into blood Exodus 7:17, 20 (E); Saul into another man 1 Samuel 10:6; streams into pitch Isaiah 34:9; sun to darkness Joel 3:4; stones to chaff Job 41:20; month changed from sorrow to gladness Esther 9:22; compare Psalm 32:4 where complement omitted
d. be overturned, overthrown, of city Nineveh Jonah 3:4.
e. be upturned, of subterran. work of miners Job 28:5 = there is an upturning.
Hithp. Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular תִּתְהַפֵּךְ Job 38:14; Participle מִתְהַפֵּךְ Judges 7:13; Job 37:12; מִתְהַפֶּכֶת Genesis 3:24; — reflexive & intransitive:
1. turn this way & that, every way, of the flaming sword Genesis 3:24 (J); storm-cloud Job 37:12; turn over & over Judges 7:13, of bread-cake tumbling into the host of Midian.
2. transform oneself, Job 38:14 of earth under rising dawn.
Hoph. Perfect בַּלָּהוֺת עָלַי הָהְפַּךְ Job 30:15 there have been turned upon me terrors (compare הִתְגַּלְגָּ֑לוּ Job 30:14, of foes).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:24; 3:24; 19:21; 19:21; 19:25; 19:25; 19:29; 19:29

Exodus

7:15; 7:15; 7:17; 7:17; 7:20; 7:20; 10:19; 14:5; 14:5

Leviticus

13:3; 13:3; 13:4; 13:10; 13:13; 13:16; 13:16; 13:17; 13:20; 13:25; 13:55

Deuteronomy

23:6; 29:22

Joshua

7:8; 8:20

Judges

7:3; 7:13; 7:13; 7:13; 20:39; 20:41

1 Samuel

4:19; 4:19; 10:6; 10:9; 10:9; 25:12; 25:12

2 Samuel

10:3; 10:3

1 Kings

22:34; 22:34

2 Kings

5:26; 9:23; 21:13; 21:13

1 Chronicles

19:3; 19:3

2 Chronicles

9:12; 9:12; 18:33; 18:33

Nehemiah

13:2

Esther

9:1; 9:1; 9:22

Job

9:5; 12:15; 12:15; 19:19; 19:19; 20:14; 20:14; 20:14; 28:5; 28:9; 30:14; 30:15; 30:21; 30:21; 34:25; 34:25; 37:12; 37:12; 38:14; 38:14; 41:20

Psalms

30:12; 32:4; 41:4; 66:6; 78:9; 78:9; 78:44; 78:57; 105:25; 105:29; 114:8; 114:8

Proverbs

12:7; 12:7; 17:20; 17:20

Isaiah

29:16; 34:9; 34:9; 60:5; 60:5; 63:10; 63:10

Jeremiah

2:21; 13:23; 20:16; 23:36; 23:36; 30:6; 31:13

Lamentations

1:20; 3:3; 3:3; 4:6; 4:6; 5:2; 5:2; 5:15

Ezekiel

4:8; 4:8

Daniel

10:8; 10:16; 10:16

Hosea

7:8; 7:8; 11:8

Joel

3:4; 3:4

Amos

4:11; 4:11; 5:7; 5:7; 5:8; 5:8; 6:12; 6:12; 8:10

Jonah

3:4; 3:4

Zephaniah

3:9; 3:9

Haggai

2:22; 2:22

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2015 matches the Hebrew הָפַךְ (hāp̄aḵ),
which occurs 94 times in 92 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 3:24–Job 37:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[fn] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:17 - This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:20 - Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea.[fn] Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - The priest is to examine the sore on the skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling skin disease. When the priest examines that person, he shall pronounce them ceremonially unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:4 - If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:10 - The priest is to examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:13 - the priest is to examine them, and if the disease has covered their whole body, he shall pronounce them clean. Since it has all turned white, they are clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:16 - If the raw flesh changes and turns white, they must go to the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:17 - The priest is to examine them, and if the sores have turned white, the priest shall pronounce the affected person clean; then they will be clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce that person unclean. It is a defiling skin disease that has broken out where the boil was.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - the priest is to examine the spot, and if the hair in it has turned white, and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - After the article has been washed, the priest is to examine it again, and if the mold has not changed its appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. Burn it, no matter which side of the fabric has been spoiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5 - However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:8 - Pardon your servant, Lord. What can I say, now that Israel has been routed by its enemies?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising up into the sky, but they had no chance to escape in any direction; the Israelites who had been fleeing toward the wilderness had turned back against their pursuers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - and then the Israelites would counterattack. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:41 - Then the Israelites counterattacked, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:19 - His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:6 - The Spirit of the LORD will come powerfully upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:9 - As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all these signs were fulfilled that day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:12 - David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn’t David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:34 - But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor. The king told his chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I’ve been wounded.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:23 - Joram turned about and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:3 - the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Haven’t his envoys come to you only to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:12 - King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for; he gave her more than she had brought to him. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:33 - But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the breastplate and the scale armor. The king told the chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I’ve been wounded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2 - because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1 - On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:5 - He moves mountains without their knowing it and overturns them in his anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:15 - If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:19 - All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:14 - yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:5 - The earth, from which food comes, is transformed below as by fire;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 - People assault the flinty rock with their hands and lay bare the roots of the mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:15 - Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:21 - You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:25 - Because he takes note of their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:12 - At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.

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