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:
Ezekiel 7:22: "My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter"
Ezekiel 7:22: "my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile"
Ezekiel 7:24: "of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled."
Ezekiel 9:6: "any man whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary."
Ezekiel 9:6: "whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient"
Ezekiel 13:19: " And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay"
Ezekiel 20:9: "But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among"
Ezekiel 20:13: "do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury"
Ezekiel 20:14: "But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose"
Ezekiel 20:16: "and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart"
Ezekiel 20:21: "do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said,"
Ezekiel 20:22: "and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose"
Ezekiel 20:24: "my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were"
Ezekiel 20:39: "ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more"
Ezekiel 22:8: "Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths."
Ezekiel 22:16: " And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 22:26: "Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between"
Ezekiel 22:26: "and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among"
Ezekiel 23:38: "my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths."
Ezekiel 23:39: "day into my sanctuary to profane thus have they done in the midst"
Ezekiel 24:21: "the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane the excellency of your strength,"
Ezekiel 25:3: "Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel,"
Ezekiel 28:7: "against of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness."
Ezekiel 28:9: "shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth"
Ezekiel 28:16: "the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy"
Ezekiel 28:18: " Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth"
Ezekiel 32:26: "are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain though they caused their terror"
Ezekiel 36:20: "the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name,"
Ezekiel 36:21: "which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither"
Ezekiel 36:22: "but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither"
Ezekiel 36:23: "my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst"
Ezekiel 36:23: "which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen that"
Ezekiel 39:7: "of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute name any more:"
Ezekiel 44:7: "and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even when ye offer"
Daniel 11:31: "And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily"
Hosea 8:10: "among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king"
Amos 2:7: "unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:"
Jonah 3:4: "And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried,"
Zephaniah 3:4: "and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law."
Malachi 1:12: "But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat,"
Malachi 2:10: "do we deal treacherously against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?"
Malachi 2:11: "and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness which he loved,"
