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חָלַל

cha.lalto boreHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb142 occurrences28 books132 verses

Definition

a primitive root (compare H2470); also denominative (from H2485) properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Traditional renderings: begin (× men began), defile, × break, defile, × eat (as common things), × first, × gather the grape thereof, × take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders חָלַל:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

142 total
  1. 1 Samuel 3:2הֵחֵ֣לּוּ
    And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.
  2. 1 Samuel 3:12הָחֵ֖ל · from beginning
    On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his house, from beginning to end.
  3. 1 Samuel 14:35הֵחֵ֔ל · it was the first
    Then Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first time he had built an altar to the LORD.
  4. 1 Samuel 22:15הַחִלֹּ֛תִי · the first time
    Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
  5. 1 Kings 1:40מְחַלְּלִ֣ים · playing
    All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
  6. 2 Kings 10:32הֵחֵ֣ל · began
    In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
  7. 2 Kings 15:37הֵחֵ֣ל · began
    (In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)
  8. 1 Chronicles 1:10הֵחֵ֔ל · began
    Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.
  9. 1 Chronicles 5:1וּֽבְחַלְּלוֹ֙ · because Reuben defiled
    These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.
  10. 1 Chronicles 27:24הֵחֵ֤ל · began
    Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.
  11. 2 Chronicles 3:1וַיָּ֣חֶל · began
    Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  12. 2 Chronicles 3:2וַ֠יָּחֶל · [Solomon] began
    Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
  13. 2 Chronicles 20:22הֵחֵ֨לּוּ · they began
    The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.
  14. 2 Chronicles 29:17וַ֠יָּחֵלּוּ · They began
    They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
  15. 2 Chronicles 29:27הֵחֵ֣ל · began; הֵחֵ֤ל · began as well
    And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
  16. 2 Chronicles 31:7הֵחֵ֥לּוּ · they began
    In the third month they began building up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
  17. 2 Chronicles 31:10מֵהָחֵ֨ל · Since [the people] began
    …and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
  18. 2 Chronicles 31:21הֵחֵ֣ל׀ · he began
    He acted with all his heart in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
  19. 2 Chronicles 34:3הֵחֵ֕ל · Josiah began; הֵחֵל֙ · he began
    In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
  20. Ezra 3:6הֵחֵ֕לּוּ · [the Israelites] began
    On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.
  21. Ezra 3:8הֵחֵ֡לּוּ · began [the work]
    In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.
  22. Nehemiah 4:7הֵחֵ֥לּוּ
    When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,
  23. Nehemiah 13:17וּֽמְחַלְּלִ֖ים · profaning
    Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
  24. Nehemiah 13:18לְחַלֵּ֖ל · by profaning
    Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”
  25. Esther 6:13הַחִלּ֨וֹתָ · has begun
    Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
  26. Esther 9:23הֵחֵ֖לּוּ · they had started
    So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
  27. Job 26:13חֹֽלֲלָ֥ה · pierced
    By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
  28. Psalm 55:20חִלֵּ֥ל · he violates
    My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
  29. Psalm 74:7חִלְּל֥וּ · they have defiled
    They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
  30. Psalm 89:31יְחַלֵּ֑לוּ · they violate
    …if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
  31. Psalm 89:34אֲחַלֵּ֥ל · violate
    I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
  32. Psalm 89:39חִלַּ֖לְתָּ · and sullied
    You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
  33. Psalm 109:22חָלַ֥ל · is wounded
    For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
  34. Proverbs 26:10מְחֽוֹלֵֽל־ · who wounds
    Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.
  35. Isaiah 23:9לְחַלֵּל֙ · to defile
    The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
  36. Isaiah 43:28וַאֲחַלֵּ֖ל · So I will disgrace
    So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
  37. Isaiah 47:6חִלַּ֙לְתִּי֙ · I profaned
    I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
  38. Isaiah 48:11יֵחָ֑ל · can I let Myself be defamed
    For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
  39. Isaiah 51:9מְחוֹלֶ֥לֶת · who pierced through
    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
  40. Isaiah 53:5מְחֹלָ֣ל · was pierced
    But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
  41. Isaiah 56:2מֵֽחַלְּל֔וֹ · without profaning it
    Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
  42. Isaiah 56:6מֵֽחַלְּל֔וֹ · without profaning it
    And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—
  43. Jeremiah 16:18חַלְּלָ֣ם · they have defiled
    And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
  44. Jeremiah 25:29מֵחֵ֣ל · am beginning
    For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
  45. Jeremiah 31:5וְחִלֵּֽלוּ׃ · and enjoy the fruit
    Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
  46. Jeremiah 34:16וַתְּחַלְּל֣וּ · and profaned
    But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
  47. Lamentations 2:2חִלֵּ֥ל · and defiled
    Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
  48. Ezekiel 7:21וְחִלְּלֻהָ׃ · who will defile them
    And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.