Dictionary entry

Halt

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

holt (tsala`, "to limp"; cholos, "lame," "crippled"): the American Standard Revised Version inGe 32:31prefers "limped"; inMic 4:6,7; Ze 3:19, "is (or was) lame"; inLu 14:21, the American Standard Revised Version and the English Revised Version have "lame." In1Ki 18:21a different word (pacach) is used in English Versions of the Bible of moral indecision: "How long halt ye between two opinions?" the American Standard Revised Version renders, "How long go ye limping between the two sides?"