Strong’s
H4253Noun, feminine2 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Judges 16:13מַחְלְפוֹת
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[מַחֲלָפָה] n.f. plait (of hair; so called fr. intertwining, passing through each other, of the strands)
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.