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 3 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.
- Ezekiel 20:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 22:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 22:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 22:26
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 23:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 23:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 24:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 25:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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,
Read word by word - Ezekiel 28:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 28:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 28:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 28:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 32:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 36:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 36:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 36:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 36:23
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 39:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 44:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Daniel 11:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
Read word by word - Hosea 8:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Amos 2:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jonah 3:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
Read word by word - Zephaniah 3:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
Read word by word - Malachi 1:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
Read word by word - Malachi 2:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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?
Read word by word - Malachi 2:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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