# הָפַךְ (hafakh)

Israeli respelling: ha-fakh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2015. 92 Old Testament occurrences.

to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert

King James renderings: [idiom] become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/hafakh-h2015

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 3:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/3/24) — So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the…
- [Genesis 19:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/21) — And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast sp…
- [Genesis 19:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/25) — And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
- [Genesis 19:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/29) — And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthro…
- [Exodus 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/7/15) — Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the r…
- [Exodus 7:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/7/17) — Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters whi…
- [Exodus 7:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/7/20) — And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of P…
- [Exodus 10:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/19) — And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust i…
- [Exodus 14:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/5) — And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and the…
- [Leviticus 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/3) — And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight…
- [Leviticus 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/4) — If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; t…
- [Leviticus 13:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/10) — And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw fl…
- [Leviticus 13:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/13) — Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague:…
- [Leviticus 13:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/16) — Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
- [Leviticus 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/17) — And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plag…
- [Leviticus 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/20) — And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronou…
- [Leviticus 13:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/25) — Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; i…
- [Leviticus 13:55](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/55) — And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be…
- [Deuteronomy 23:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/23/5) — Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the L…
- [Deuteronomy 29:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/23) — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like…
- [Joshua 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/8) — O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
- [Joshua 8:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/20) — And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to fle…
- [Judges 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/7/13) — And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake o…
- [Judges 20:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/39) — And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said…
- [Judges 20:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/41) — And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
- [1 Samuel 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/4/19) — And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken…
- [1 Samuel 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/6) — And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
- [1 Samuel 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/9) — And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.
- [1 Samuel 25:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/12) — So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
- [2 Samuel 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/10/3) — And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent com…
- [1 Kings 22:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/34) — And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the drive…
- [2 Kings 5:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/5/26) — And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money…
- [2 Kings 9:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/23) — And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
- [2 Kings 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/13) — And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a di…
- [1 Chronicles 19:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/19/3) — But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto…
- [2 Chronicles 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/12) — And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she t…
- [2 Chronicles 18:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/33) — And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot…
- [Nehemiah 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/2) — Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit ou…
- [Esther 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/1) — Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near…
- [Esther 9:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/22) — As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into…
- [Job 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/5) — Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
- [Job 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/15) — Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
- [Job 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/19) — All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
- [Job 20:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/14) — Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- [Job 28:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/5) — As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
- [Job 28:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/9) — He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
- [Job 30:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/15) — Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- [Job 30:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/21) — Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
- [Job 34:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/25) — Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
- [Job 37:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/12) — And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
- [Job 38:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/14) — It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
- [Job 41:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/28) — The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
- [Psalms 30:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/30/11) — Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
- [Psalms 32:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/32/4) — For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- [Psalms 41:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/41/3) — The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
- [Psalms 66:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/66/6) — He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
- [Psalms 78:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/9) — The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
- [Psalms 78:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/44) — And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
- [Psalms 78:57](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/57) — But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
- [Psalms 105:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/25) — He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
- [Psalms 105:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/29) — He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
- [Psalms 114:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/114/8) — Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
- [Proverbs 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/7) — The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
- [Proverbs 17:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/20) — He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
- [Isaiah 34:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/9) — And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
- [Isaiah 60:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/5) — Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted un…
- [Isaiah 63:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/10) — But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
- [Jeremiah 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/21) — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- [Jeremiah 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/23) — Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
- [Jeremiah 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/16) — And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at…
- [Jeremiah 23:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/36) — And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the livin…
- [Jeremiah 30:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/30/6) — Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail,…
- [Jeremiah 31:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/13) — Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them…
- [Lamentations 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/20) — Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sw…
- [Lamentations 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/3) — Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
- [Lamentations 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/6) — For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as…
- [Lamentations 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/2) — Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
- [Lamentations 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/15) — The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
- [Ezekiel 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/8) — And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
- [Daniel 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/8) — Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corrup…
- [Daniel 10:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/16) — And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood be…
- [Hosea 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/7/8) — Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
- [Hosea 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/11/8) — How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine h…
- [Joel 2:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/31) — The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
- [Amos 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/11) — I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not…
- [Amos 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/7) — Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
- [Amos 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/8) — Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that…
- [Amos 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/12) — Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into h…
- [Amos 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/10) — And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness…
- [Jonah 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/4) — And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
- [Zephaniah 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/9) — For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
- [Haggai 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/haggai/2/22) — And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chari…