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הַלָּזֶה

this

H1976 Strong's Hebrew
hallâzeh Transliteration
/hal-law-zeh'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

At its core, הלזה (hallâzeh) means “this.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Genesis (100%). First canonically at Genesis 24:65, it enters the text early. It shares a root with הלאה, הלא and הלם. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
this
Modern gloss
this
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H1976 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 24:65
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 24:65.
Genesis 37:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Genesis 37:19.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 2 · 100%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Behold this 1×, Is this 1×
  • American Standard Version: Behold 1×, Is this 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Is that 1×, That 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: That 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H1976 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Behold this” 1×
  • “Is this” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H1976 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Behold” 1×
  • “Is this” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H1976 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Is that” 1×
  • “That” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H1976 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “That” 2×

Senses in BDB

The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. this, this one (without subst), yonder

Word origin

this; masc. Gn 24:65 הָאִישׁ הַלָּזֶה, 37:19 בַּעַל חֲלוֹמוֹת הַלָּזֶה this dreamer (contemptuously); fem. Ex 36:35 הָאָרֶץ הַלֵּזוּ.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from הלאה (hâlᵉʼâh) (H1973) — yonder.

TWOT: 497


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

הֲלָזָה

  • (לוּז III) talk, sneer. Tosef. Keth. II, 3 נפלה ה׳ וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (Var. חלזה, חלזון, corr. acc.) talk (against the court’s action) spread in town, opp. ערער legal protest.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H1976 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
הַלָּזֶ֖ה Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular Genesis 37:19 1
הַלָּזֶה֙ Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular Genesis 24:65 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1976, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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Reading settings

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