Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H2490: חָלַל (châlal) Definition

Strong's number
H2490
Lemma
חָלַל
Transliteration
châlal
Pronunciation
khaw-lal'
Strong's definition
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) begin ([idiom] men began), defile, [idiom] break, defile, [idiom] eat (as common things), [idiom] first, [idiom] gather the grape thereof, [idiom] take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound. a primitive root (compare H2470 (חָלָה)); also denominative (from H2485 (חָלִיל))

132 instances of the word חָלַל châlal (H2490)


  • Ezekiel 36:23 - And I will sanctify name my great which was profaned among the heathen which was profaned in the midst shall know among the heathen that I am the LORD saith the Lord GOD And I will sanctify in you before their eyes

  • Ezekiel 39:7 - name So will I make my holy known in the midst of my people Israel and I will not let them pollute name So will I make my holy known any more and the heathen that I am the LORD the Holy One Israel

  • Ezekiel 44:7 - In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers and uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh to be in my sanctuary to pollute it even my house when ye offer my bread the fat and the blood and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations

  • Ezra 3:6 - day From the first month of the seventh began they to offer burnt offerings of the LORD of the temple of the LORD But the foundation

  • Ezra 3:8 - year Now in the second and all they that were come out of the house of God at Jerusalem month Now in the second began Zerubbabel old of Shealtiel and Jeshua old of Jozadak and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites and all they that were come out of the captivity at Jerusalem and appointed and the Levites old from twenty year and upward to set forward the work of the house of the LORD

  • Genesis 4:26 - And to Seth to him also there was born a son and he called his name Enos then began men and he called his name of the LORD

  • Genesis 6:1 - began And it came to pass when men to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born

  • Genesis 9:20 - began And Noah and he planted a vineyard

  • Genesis 10:8 - And Cush begat Nimrod he began to be a mighty one in the earth

  • Genesis 11:6 - said And the LORD Behold the people and they have all one language and they have all one and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do

  • Genesis 41:54 - began And the seven years and the dearth to come had said according as Joseph and the dearth but in all the land but in all the land of Egypt there was bread

  • Genesis 44:12 - And he searched at the eldest and began at the youngest and left was found and the cup sack in Benjamin's

  • Genesis 49:4 - Unstable as water thou shalt not excel because thou wentest up bed to thy father's then defiledst thou to my couch because thou wentest up

  • Hosea 8:10 - Yea though they have hired among the nations now will I gather them and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes

  • Isaiah 23:9 - The LORD of hosts hath purposed it to stain the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth

  • Isaiah 43:28 - Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary and have given to the curse Jacob and Israel to reproaches

  • Isaiah 47:6 - I was wroth with my people I have polluted mine inheritance and given them into thine hand thou didst shew them no mercy upon the ancient heavily laid thy yoke hast thou very

  • Isaiah 48:11 - For mine own sake even for mine own sake will I do it for how should my name be polluted my glory unto another and I will not give

  • Isaiah 51:9 - Awake Awake put on strength O arm of the LORD Awake days as in the ancient in the generations of old Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab and wounded the dragon

  • Isaiah 53:5 - But he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed