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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. Ezekiel 7:22וְחִלְּל֖וּ · and they will defile; וְחִלְּלֽוּהָ׃פ · and they will defile it
    I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.
  2. Ezekiel 7:24וְנִחֲל֖וּ · will be profaned
    So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
  3. Ezekiel 9:6תָּחֵ֑לּוּ · Now begin; וַיָּחֵ֙לּוּ֙ · So they began
    Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
  4. Ezekiel 13:19וַתְּחַלֶּלְ֨נָה · You have profaned
    You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.
  5. Ezekiel 20:9הֵחֵ֛ל · be profaned
    But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
  6. Ezekiel 20:13חִלְּל֣וּ · profaned
    Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
  7. Ezekiel 20:14הֵחֵל֙ · be profaned
    But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
  8. Ezekiel 20:16חִלֵּ֑לוּ · profaning
    …because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
  9. Ezekiel 20:21חִלֵּ֑לוּ · and they profaned
    But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
  10. Ezekiel 20:22הֵחֵל֙ · be profaned
    But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
  11. Ezekiel 20:24חִלֵּ֑לוּ · and profaned
    For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
  12. Ezekiel 20:39תְחַלְּלוּ־ · defile
    And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
  13. Ezekiel 22:8חִלָּֽלְתְּ׃ · profaned
    You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
  14. Ezekiel 22:16וְנִחַ֥לְתְּ · And when you have defiled
    And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
  15. Ezekiel 22:26וַיְחַלְּל֣וּ · and profane; וָאֵחַ֖ל · so that I am profaned
    Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
  16. Ezekiel 23:38חִלֵּֽלוּ׃ · and profaned
    They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.
  17. Ezekiel 23:39לְחַלְּל֑וֹ · to profane it
    On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.
  18. Ezekiel 24:21מְחַלֵּ֤ל · I am about to desecrate
    Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’
  19. Ezekiel 25:3נִחָ֗ל · was profaned
    Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,
  20. Ezekiel 28:7וְחִלְּל֖וּ · and will defile
    …behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
  21. Ezekiel 28:9מְחַלְלֶֽיךָ׃ · of those who wound you
    Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
  22. Ezekiel 28:16וָאֶחַלֶּלְךָ֩ · So I drove you in disgrace
    By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
  23. Ezekiel 28:18חִלַּ֖לְתָּ · you have profaned
    By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.
  24. Ezekiel 32:26מְחֻ֣לְלֵי · slain
    Meshech and Tubal are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
  25. Ezekiel 36:20וַֽיְחַלְּל֖וּ · they profaned
    And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’
  26. Ezekiel 36:21חִלְּל֙וּהוּ֙ · had profaned
    But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.
  27. Ezekiel 36:22חִלַּלְתֶּ֔ם · you profaned
    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.
  28. Ezekiel 36:23הַֽמְחֻלָּל֙ · which has been profaned; חִלַּלְתֶּ֖ם · you have profaned
    I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.
  29. Ezekiel 39:7אַחֵ֥ל · to be profaned
    So I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
  30. Ezekiel 44:7לְחַלְּל֣וֹ · you defiled
    In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.
  31. Daniel 11:31וְחִלְּל֞וּ · and desecrate
    His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
  32. Hosea 8:10וַיָּחֵ֣לּוּ · and they will begin
    Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
  33. Amos 2:7חַלֵּ֖ל · profane
    They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
  34. Jonah 3:4וַיָּ֤חֶל · set out
    On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
  35. Zephaniah 3:4חִלְּלוּ־ · profane
    Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
  36. Malachi 1:12מְחַלְּלִ֣ים · profane
    “But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
  37. Malachi 2:10לְחַלֵּ֖ל · so as to profane
    Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
  38. Malachi 2:11חִלֵּ֣ל · has profaned
    Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.