Strong's #2490: chalal (pronounced khaw-lal')
a primitive root (compare 2470); 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"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute):--begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châlal
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 profane (name of God)
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to let be profaned
1d2) to begin
1e) (Hophal) to be begun
2) to wound (fatally), bore through, pierce, bore
2a) (Qal) to pierce
2b) (Pual) to be slain
2c) (Poel) to wound, pierce
2d) (Poal) to be wounded
3) (Piel) to play the flute or pipe
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [compare H2470]
Usage:
This word is used 142 times:
Genesis 4:26: "his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD."
Genesis 6:1: "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,"
Genesis 9:20: "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:"
Genesis 10:8: "Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth."
Genesis 11:6: "one language; and this they begin and now nothing"
Genesis 41:54: "And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said:"
Genesis 44:12: "And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's"
Genesis 49:4: "to thy father's bed; then defiledst to my couch."
Exodus 20:25: "if thou lift up thy tool it, thou hast polluted"
Exodus 31:14: "therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever"
Leviticus 18:21: "any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God:"
Leviticus 19:8: "it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that"
Leviticus 19:12: "swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I"
Leviticus 19:29: "Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom,"
Leviticus 20:3: "of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane"
Leviticus 21:4: "defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself."
Leviticus 21:6: "holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for"
Leviticus 21:9: "of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth"
Leviticus 21:9: "she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: with fire."
Leviticus 21:12: "of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for"
Leviticus 21:15: "Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify"
Leviticus 21:23: "the altar, because that he profane not my sanctuaries: for"
Leviticus 22:2: "from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane my holy"
Leviticus 22:9: "for it, and die therefore, if they profane the LORD do sanctify"
Leviticus 22:15: "And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which"
Leviticus 22:32: "Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children"
Numbers 16:46: "gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun."
Numbers 16:47: "of the congregation; and, behold, was begun among the people: and he put on incense,"
Numbers 18:32: "the best of it: neither shall ye pollute of the children of Israel, lest"
Numbers 25:1: "abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab."
Numbers 30:2: "to bind his soul he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all"
Deuteronomy 2:24: "king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle."
Deuteronomy 2:25: "This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations"
Deuteronomy 2:31: "said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land"
Deuteronomy 2:31: "Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land."
Deuteronomy 3:24: "O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to show thy servant"
Deuteronomy 16:9: "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest"
Deuteronomy 16:9: "to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn."
Deuteronomy 20:6: "hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house,"
Deuteronomy 20:6: "in the battle, and another man eat"
Deuteronomy 28:30: "therein: thou shalt plant and shalt not gather the grapes"
Joshua 3:7: "Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all"
Judges 10:18: "What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be"
Judges 13:5: "from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand"
Judges 13:25: "And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah"
Judges 16:19: "the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from"
Judges 16:22: "Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven."
Judges 20:31: "and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill,"
Judges 20:39: "retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel"
Judges 20:40: "But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites"
