Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
spoil
Usage: what is stripped off (a person in war), armour, spoils, belt
Chalitsah means “armour” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2488 — ioatham (“Joatham”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2488 חֲלִיצָּה (chaliytsah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chaliytsah (khal-ee-tsaw') n-f. 1. spoil [from H2503] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include spoil and armour. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chaliytsah (khal-ee-tsaw') n-f. 1. spoil [from H2503] KJV: armour. Root(s): H2503
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2488. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
spoil
Usage: what is stripped off (a person in war), armour, spoils, belt
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chaliytsah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2488.
And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2488, grouped by book.
Chalitsah (Strong's H2488) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "armour". chaliytsah (khal-ee-tsaw') n-f. 1. spoil [from H2503]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's H2488 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2488 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as spoil and armour. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.