Words the Bible translates as change
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- savavסָבַבto turn: change the direction one is facing or moving, or send something a roundabout way
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- to go around: move in a circuit or circle around something, or run around a thing as a rim does
- to surround: close in around someone or something on every side
- to turn something over: hand it on, transfer it, or change it into something else
- haphakhהָפַךְto change one thing into its opposite, turning a state, condition, or substance into something else
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- to turn something over, around, or back, so a new side or heading faces out
- to overthrow and destroy, tearing a place down so completely that it is left upended in ruin
- to pervert or twist, turning what is straight and right into something crooked
- allassōἀλλάσσωto make something other than it was: to change it, exchange it for something else, or transform it
- metastrephōμεταστρέφωto changenot studied yet
- ḥalaphחָלַףto change: to exchange one thing for another, or put a substitute in its place
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- to pass: to move on past, sweep through a place, come to an end, or drive clean through
- to renew: to come up fresh again, or to gain new strength
- shanahשָׁנָהto change: to make or become different, or to stand apart from others as unlike them
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- to do a second time: to repeat an act or a word, or to do it again
- shenaשְׁנָאto become or be other than before: to change, be altered, or be different in kind
- murמוּרto exchange one thing for another: to swap, substitute, or change something out
- ḥaliphahחֲלִיפָהa change: something fresh that takes the place of what was there before, whether clothing, a work shift, or a turn in someone's situation
- metaschēmatizōμετασχηματίζωto change the form of something: to refashion how it looks or is presented
- metathesisμετάθεσιςremoval/changenot studied yet
- shanaשָׁנָאto changenot studied yet
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