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:
1 Samuel 3:2: "was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could see;"
1 Samuel 3:12: "I have spoken concerning when I begin, I will also make an end."
1 Samuel 14:35: "built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD."
1 Samuel 22:15: "Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute"
1 Kings 1:40: "came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy,"
2 Kings 10:32: "In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote"
2 Kings 15:37: "In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king"
1 Chronicles 1:10: "Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth."
1 Chronicles 5:1: "(for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, was given"
1 Chronicles 27:24: "Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell"
2 Chronicles 3:1: "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount"
2 Chronicles 3:2: " And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign."
2 Chronicles 20:22: "And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against"
2 Chronicles 29:17: " Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month"
2 Chronicles 29:27: "upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD also with the trumpets,"
2 Chronicles 29:27: "began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments"
2 Chronicles 31:7: "In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month."
2 Chronicles 31:10: "of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began Since the people began to bring the offerings"
2 Chronicles 31:21: "And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law,"
2 Chronicles 34:3: "while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David"
2 Chronicles 34:3: "and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah"
Ezra 3:6: "From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings"
Ezra 3:8: "at Jerusalem, in the second month, began the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua"
Nehemiah 4:7: "were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,"
Nehemiah 13:17: "that do, and profane the sabbath day?"
Nehemiah 13:18: "wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath."
Esther 6:13: "be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail"
Esther 9:23: "to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto"
Job 26:13: "he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent."
Psalms 55:20: "He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant."
Psalms 74:7: "They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground."
Psalms 87:7: "As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs"
Psalms 89:31: "If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;"
Psalms 89:34: "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."
Psalms 89:39: "Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground."
Psalms 109:22: "am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within"
Isaiah 23:9: "The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt"
Isaiah 43:28: " Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches."
Isaiah 47:6: "I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst show"
Isaiah 48:11: "will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another."
Isaiah 51:9: "it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?"
Isaiah 53:5: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement"
Isaiah 56:2: "that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting from polluting his hand from doing"
Isaiah 56:6: "every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;"
Jeremiah 16:18: "and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled"
Jeremiah 25:29: "For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called"
Jeremiah 31:5: "of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things."
Jeremiah 34:16: "But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man"
Lamentations 2:2: "of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes"
Ezekiel 7:21: "and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute"
