Lexical Summary Chalach: an area under Assyr. control Original Word: חֲלַחTransliteration: Chalach Phonetic Spelling: (khal-akh') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: an area under Assyr. control Meaning: Halah -- an area under Assyrian control Strong's Concordance Halah Probably of foreign origin; Chalach, a region of Assyria -- Halah. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2477. Chalach חֲלַח proper name, of a location a city or district under Assyrian control, whither Israel captives were taken 2 Kings 17:6 = 18:11, 1 Chronicles 5:26, compare –ala——u in Mesopotamia, SchrCOT on 2 Kings 17:8; > HalMél. Epigr. 1874, 70 Cilica (= Phoenician חלך, LagM. i. 211, Assyrian –ilakku, LyonSargontexte) LagBN 57. |