BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2520
chel.qat — Helkath
Helkath = "smooth" the town named as the starting point for the boundary of the tribe of Asher and allotted with its suburbs to the Gershonite Levites Also named: chu.qoq (חוּקֹק "Hukok" H2712B)
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2482
cha.li — Hali
§ Hali = "necklace" a town on the boundary of Asher between Helkath and Beten
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2521
chel.qat hats.tsu.rim — Helkath-hazzurim
§ Helkath-hazzurim = "field of swords" a place near the pool of Gibeon where Ishbosheth's men were killed by David's men under Joab
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Smoothness, a town of Asher, on the east border (Josh. 19:25; 21:31); called also Hukok (1 Chr. 6:75).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
