Definition

a (sacrificial) knife (as gliding through the flesh)

Etymology

from H2498 (חָלַף);

Word family

• חָלַף châlaph

How the KJV renders it

• knife

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.