Strong’s H2509 · Hebrew
חָלָק
châlâq · khaw-lawk'
Origin from חָלַק (H2505);
Meaning smooth (especially of tongue)
In the King James Version flattering, smooth.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 27:11And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
- Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 26:28A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
- Ezekiel 12:24For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.