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)


  • Leviticus 19:12 - And ye shall not swear by my name falsely neither shalt thou profane by my name of thy God I am the LORD

  • Leviticus 19:29 - Do not prostitute thy daughter fall to whoredom fall to whoredom and the land become full and the land of wickedness

  • Leviticus 20:3 - And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people of his seed And I will set unto Molech to defile my sanctuary and to profane name my holy

  • Leviticus 21:4 - But he shall not defile himself being a chief man among his people to profane

  • Leviticus 21:6 - therefore they shall be holy of their God and not profane the name of their God for the offerings of the LORD and the bread of their God they do offer They shall be holy

  • Leviticus 21:9 - And the daughter of any priest if she profane herself by playing the whore her father if she profane with fire she shall be burnt

  • Leviticus 21:12 - of the sanctuary Neither shall he go out nor profane of the sanctuary of his God for the crown oil of the anointing of his God is upon him I am the LORD

  • Leviticus 21:15 - Neither shall he profane his seed among his people for I the LORD do sanctify

  • Leviticus 21:23 - unto the vail Only he shall not go in unto the altar nor come nigh because he hath a blemish that he profane not my sanctuaries for I the LORD do sanctify

  • Leviticus 22:2 - Speak unto Aaron and to his sons that they separate not my holy and to his sons of Israel and that they profane name not my holy in those things which they hallow unto me I am the LORD

  • Leviticus 22:9 - They shall therefore keep mine ordinance lest they bear sin for it and die therefore if they profane it I the LORD do sanctify

  • Leviticus 22:15 - And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto the LORD

  • Leviticus 22:32 - Neither shall ye profane name my holy but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel I am the LORD but I will be hallowed

  • Malachi 1:12 - But ye have profaned it in that ye say The table is polluted and the fruit is contemptible thereof even his meat

  • Malachi 2:10 - father Have we not all one God Have we not all one created us why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother by profaning the covenant father

  • Malachi 2:11 - hath dealt treacherously Judah and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem hath profaned Judah the holiness of the LORD which he loved and hath married the daughter god of a strange

  • Nehemiah 4:7 - heard But it came to pass that when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites were made up that the walls of Jerusalem began and that the breaches to be stopped wroth then they were very

  • Nehemiah 13:17 - Then I contended with the nobles of Judah and said thing unto them What evil is this that ye do and profane day the sabbath

  • Nehemiah 13:18 - Did not your fathers bring not our God all this evil upon us and upon this city more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath

  • Numbers 16:46 - said And Moses unto Aaron Take a censer and put fire the altar and put on incense quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement gone out for them for there is wrath therein from off from the LORD is begun the plague