| Lexical Summary chalat: to catchOriginal Word: חָלַט Transliteration: chalat Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lat') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to catch Meaning: to snatch at Strong's Concordancecatch A primitive root; to snatch at -- catch. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2480. chalat [חָלַט] verb only מִמֶּנּוּ הֲ וַיַּחְלְטוּ 1 Kings 20:33, read probably מִמֶּנּוּ וַיַּחְלְטוּהָ (compare ᵐ5 ἀνέλεξαν τὸν λόγον ἀπὸ τοῦ στόματος ἀτοῦ and StaG i. 445f.) and they snatched it from him, caught the word from his lips; Sta§ 529 a as Qal; Köi. 251 Ges§ 53. 3 R 4 and most as Hiph`il, with ִ  omitted חלך (√ of following; possibly (si vera lectio) compare Arabic be black (passing into figurative sense, unfortunate, in Hebrew), see BaePsalm 10:8; compare Aramaic חֲשׁוֺח). | 



