TBESH · H2490A
חָלַל · cha.lal · to bore
1) to wound (fatally), bore through, pierce, bore 1a) (Qal) to pierce 1b) (Pual) to be slain 1c) (Poel) to wound, pierce 1d) (Poal) to be wounded
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cha.lal H2490
חָלַל (cha.lal) means “to bore” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חָלַל Hebrew · H2490 143 tagged occurrences in 133 verses
Pronunciation guide: khaw-lal' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H2490B
חָלַל · cha.lal · to play flute
(Piel) to play the flute or pipe
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TBESH · H2490C
חָלַל · cha.lal · to profane/begin: begin
: begin 1) to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself 1a1a) ritually 1a1b) sexually 1a2) to be polluted, be defiled 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to profane, make common, defile, pollute 1b2) to violate the honour of, dishonour 1b3) to violate (a covenant) 1b4) to treat as common 1c) (Pual) to be profaned (of name of God) 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to let be profaned 1d2) to begin 1e) (Hophal) to be begun
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TBESH · H2490H
חָלַל · cha.lal · to profane/begin: profane
: profane 1) to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself 1a1a) ritually 1a1b) sexually 1a2) to be polluted, be defiled 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to profane, make common, defile, pollute 1b2) to violate the honour of, dishonour 1b3) to violate (a covenant) 1b4) to treat as common 1c) (Pual) to be profaned (of name of God) 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to let be profaned 1d2) to begin 1e) (Hophal) to be begun
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TBESH · H2490I
חָלַל · cha.lal · to profane/begin: fruit
: fruit 1) to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself 1a1a) ritually 1a1b) sexually 1a2) to be polluted, be defiled 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to profane, make common, defile, pollute 1b2) to violate the honour of, dishonour 1b3) to violate (a covenant) 1b4) to treat as common 1c) (Pual) to be profaned (of name of God) 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to let be profaned 1d2) to begin 1e) (Hophal) to be begun
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root (compare H2470 (חָלָה)); also denominative (from H2485 (חָלִיל)) 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)
KJV glosses: 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.
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How translators render H2490
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| began | 13 |
| profane | 8 |
| and profaned | 4 |
| defile | 4 |
| they began | 4 |
| be profaned | 3 |
| you have profaned | 3 |
| begin | 2 |
| enjoy its fruit | 2 |
| had begun | 2 |
| has begun | 2 |
| he began | 2 |
| i will begin | 2 |
| profaned | 2 |
| profaning | 2 |
| they have defiled | 2 |
| without profaning it | 2 |
| am beginning | 1 |
| and defiled | 1 |
| and desecrate | 1 |
| and enjoy the fruit | 1 |
| and profane | 1 |
| and so profane | 1 |
| and so profane himself | 1 |
| and sullied | 1 |
| and they profaned | 1 |
| and they will begin | 1 |
| and they will defile | 1 |
| and they will defile it | 1 |
| and when you have defiled | 1 |
| and will defile | 1 |
| anyone who profanes it | 1 |
| because reuben defiled | 1 |
| began as well | 1 |
| began the work | 1 |
| beginning | 1 |
| begun to enjoy its fruit | 1 |
| break | 1 |
| by profaning | 1 |
| can i let myself be defamed | 1 |
| defiled it | 1 |
| defiles herself | 1 |
| from beginning | 1 |
| had profaned | 1 |
| has profaned | 1 |
| have begun | 1 |
| he has profaned | 1 |
| he violates | 1 |
| i am about to desecrate | 1 |
| i have begun | 1 |
| i profaned | 1 |
| in this way she began | 1 |
| is wounded | 1 |
| it was the first | 1 |
| josiah began | 1 |
| men began | 1 |
| now begin | 1 |
| of those who wound you | 1 |
| or desecrate | 1 |
| pierced | 1 |
| playing | 1 |
| proceeded | 1 |
| profanes | 1 |
| set out | 1 |
| since the people began | 1 |
| slain | 1 |
| so as not to desecrate | 1 |
| so as to profane | 1 |
| so i drove you in disgrace | 1 |
| so i will disgrace | 1 |
| so that i am profaned | 1 |
| so they began | 1 |
| solomon began | 1 |
| the first time | 1 |
| the israelites began | 1 |
| they had started | 1 |
| they have begun | 1 |
| they profane it | 1 |
| they profaned | 1 |
| they violate | 1 |
| to be profaned | 1 |
| to defile | 1 |
| to profane it | 1 |
| violate | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| was pierced | 1 |
| was profaned | 1 |
| which has been profaned | 1 |
| who pierced through | 1 |
| who will defile them | 1 |
| who wounds | 1 |
| will be profaned | 1 |
| will begin | 1 |
| will launch | 1 |
| you defiled | 1 |
| you profaned | 1 |
| you will defile it | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| began | 21 |
| he began | 4 |
| sake that it should not be polluted | 3 |
| to profane | 3 |
| and have profaned | 2 |
| begin | 2 |
| by profaning | 2 |
| from polluting | 2 |
| neither shalt thou profane | 2 |
| they began | 2 |
| will i begin | 2 |
| wounded | 2 |
| also from them and they shall pollute | 1 |
| and begin | 1 |
| and had polluted | 1 |
| and hast profaned | 1 |
| and he began | 1 |
| and he shall begin | 1 |
| and i am profaned | 1 |
| and not profane | 1 |
| and polluted | 1 |
| and profane | 1 |
| and shalt not gather the grapes | 1 |
| and she began | 1 |
| and that they profane | 1 |
| and they began | 1 |
| and they shall defile | 1 |
| and they shall not profane | 1 |
| and they shall pollute | 1 |
| and this they begin | 1 |
| and thou shalt take thine inheritance | 1 |
| and to profane | 1 |
| and will ye pollute | 1 |
| as common things | 1 |
| as the players | 1 |
| as they had begun | 1 |
| be polluted | 1 |
| because he hath profaned | 1 |
| because they have defiled | 1 |
| behold i will profane | 1 |
| but forasmuch as he defiled | 1 |
| but polluted | 1 |
| but ye have profaned | 1 |
| do not prostitute | 1 |
| eat | 1 |
| eaten | 1 |
| for lo i begin | 1 |
| had profaned | 1 |
| hath profaned | 1 |
| have polluted | 1 |
| he hath polluted | 1 |
| he shall not break | 1 |
| i have begun | 1 |
| i have polluted | 1 |
| if she profane | 1 |
| if they break | 1 |
| in them they polluted | 1 |
| into it and defile | 1 |
| is begun | 1 |
| is wounded | 1 |
| it to stain | 1 |
| neither shall he profane | 1 |
| neither shall ye profane | 1 |
| nor profane | 1 |
| now they began | 1 |
| of him that slayeth | 1 |
| of it neither shall ye pollute | 1 |
| on his part and they shall pollute | 1 |
| piped | 1 |
| pollute | 1 |
| polluted | 1 |
| sake which ye have profaned | 1 |
| shall be defiled | 1 |
| she profaneth | 1 |
| slain | 1 |
| that he began | 1 |
| that he profane | 1 |
| that will begin | 1 |
| the same was the first | 1 |
| thee begin | 1 |
| them and they shall sorrow | 1 |
| then began men | 1 |
| then defiledst thou | 1 |
| then they began | 1 |
| therefore i have profaned | 1 |
| therefore i will cast thee as profane | 1 |
| therefore if they profane | 1 |
| they have defiled | 1 |
| they profaned | 1 |
| thou beginnest | 1 |
| thou hast begun | 1 |
| thou hast defiled | 1 |
| thou hast profaned | 1 |
| to pollute | 1 |
| unto me but pollute | 1 |
| unto thee begin | 1 |
| unto you every one that defileth | 1 |
| upon it thou hast polluted | 1 |
| was begun | 1 |
| when i begin | 1 |
| when it was profaned | 1 |
| which was profaned | 1 |
| which ye have profaned | 1 |
| whom thou hast begun | 1 |
| will i not break | 1 |
| with him he hath broken | 1 |
Verses containing H2490
Page 2 of 3. 133 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- 1 Kings 1:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 10:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
Read word by word - 2 Kings 15:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
(In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 1:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 5:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 27:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 3:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 3:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 20:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 29:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 29:27
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 31:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In the third month they began building up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 31:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 31:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 34:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Ezra 3:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezra 3:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 4:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.1
- Nehemiah 13:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
Read word by word - Nehemiah 13:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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!”
Read word by word - Esther 6:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Esther 9:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
Read word by word - Job 26:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Read word by word - Psalms 55:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 55.21
- Psalms 74:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
Read word by word - Psalms 87:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”
Read word by word - Psalms 89:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.32
- Psalms 89:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.35
- Psalms 89:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.40
- Psalms 109:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
Read word by word - Proverbs 26:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.
Read word by word - Isaiah 23:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
Read word by word - Isaiah 43:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 47:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 48:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 51:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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?
Read word by word - Isaiah 53:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 56:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 56:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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—
Read word by word - Jeremiah 16:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 25:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 31:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Lamentations 2:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 7:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 7:22
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 7:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 9:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 13:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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