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Strong's #2015: haphak (pronounced haw-fak')

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




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

hâphak

1) to turn, overthrow, overturn

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to overturn, overthrow

1a2) to turn, turn about, turn over, turn around

1a3) to change, transform

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to turn oneself, turn, turn back

1b2) to change oneself

1b3) to be perverse

1b4) to be turned, be turned over, be changed, be turned against

1b5) to be reversed

1b6) to be overturned, be overthrown

1b7) to be upturned

1c) (Hithpael)

1c1) to transform oneself

1c2) to turn this way and that, turn every way

1d) (Hophal) to turn on someone

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 94 times:

Job 37:12: "And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth"
Job 38:14: " It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment."
Job 41:28: "The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble."
Psalms 30:11: " Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;"
Psalms 32:4: "was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah."
Psalms 41:3: "him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness."
Psalms 66:6: " He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice"
Psalms 78:9: "being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle."
Psalms 78:44: " And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink."
Psalms 78:57: "But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow."
Psalms 105:25: " He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtlely with his servants."
Psalms 105:29: " He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish."
Psalms 114:8: " Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters."
Proverbs 12:7: "The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand."
Proverbs 17:20: "findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief."
Isaiah 34:9: "And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning"
Isaiah 60:5: "because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto of the Gentiles shall come"
Isaiah 63:10: "his Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought"
Jeremiah 2:21: "a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine"
Jeremiah 13:23: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also"
Jeremiah 20:16: "as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry"
Jeremiah 23:36: "word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God,"
Jeremiah 30:6: "as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?"
Jeremiah 31:13: "both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort"
Lamentations 1:20: "my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:"
Lamentations 3:3: "Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day."
Lamentations 4:6: "is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no"
Lamentations 5:2: "Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
Lamentations 5:15: "of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."
Ezekiel 4:8: "bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another,"
Daniel 10:8: "no strength was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no"
Daniel 10:16: "before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no"
Hosea 7:8: "is a cake not turned."
Hosea 11:8: "how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together."
Joel 2:31: "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible"
Amos 4:11: " I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand"
Amos 5:7: " Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,"
Amos 5:8: "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark"
Amos 6:12: "will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness"
Amos 8:10: " And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth"
Jonah 3:4: "forty and Nineveh shall be overthrown."
Zephaniah 3:9: "For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all"
Haggai 2:22: " And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow"
Haggai 2:22: "the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses"









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