Strong's Hebrew · H2490
H2490 châlal
חָלַל
khaw-lal'
to bore
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châlal appears 142 times in Scripture, including Genesis 4:26 and Exodus 20:25. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
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)
In the King James Version
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.
Derivation
a primitive root (compare H2470 (חָלָה)); also denominative (from H2485 (חָלִיל))
Appears 142 times in Scripture
“And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.”
“The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.”
“Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.”
“Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,”
“Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.”
“Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.”
“Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.”
“the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.”
“And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.”
“Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
