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Lexicon :: Strong's H2491 - ḥālāl

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חָלָל
Transliteration
ḥālāl
Pronunciation
khaw-lawl'
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Part of Speech
adjective, masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 660a

Strong’s Definitions

חָלָל châlâl, khaw-lawl'; from H2490; pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted:—kill, profane, slain (man), × slew, (deadly) wounded.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x

The KJV translates Strong's H2491 in the following manner: slay (78x), wounded (10x), profane (3x), kill (2x), slain man (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x
The KJV translates Strong's H2491 in the following manner: slay (78x), wounded (10x), profane (3x), kill (2x), slain man (1x).
masculine noun

  1. slain, fatally wounded, pierced

    1. pierced, fatally wounded

    2. slain

      adjective

  2. (CLBL) profaned

    1. defiled, profaned (by divorce)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָלָל châlâl, khaw-lawl'; from H2490; pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted:—kill, profane, slain (man), × slew, (deadly) wounded.
STRONGS H2491: Abbreviations
† I. חָלָל 90 noun masculine pierced, ח׳ absolute Deuteronomy 21:1 + 25 times; construct חֲלַל Numbers 19:16; plural חֲלָלִים Numbers 23:24 + 28 times; construct חַלְלֵי Isaiah 22:2 + 21 times; suffix חֲלָלֶיךָ Psalm 69:27, etc. + 11 times suffixes; —
1. pierced, fatally wounded Psalm 69:27; Jeremiah 51:52; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 30:24; Lamentations 2:12. Elsewhere
2. slain Numbers 19:18; Numbers 31:8, 19 (P), etc.; singular collective 2 Samuel 23:8, 18 = 1 Chronicles 11:11, 20; Ezekiel 6:7; Ezekiel 30:11, etc., but usually plural 1 Samuel 17:52 (RV wounded) Jeremiah 51:49, etc.; † חַלְלֵי חֶרֶב Isaiah 22:2; Jeremiah 14:18; Ezekiel 31:17, 18; Ezekiel 32:20, 21, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32; Zephaniah 2:12; Lamentations 4:9; חַלְלֵי רעב Lamentations 4:9; חַלְלֵי יהוה Isaiah 66:16; Jeremiah 25:33.

† II. חָלָל adjective profaned; — חָלָל רָשָׁע (read construct חֲלַל SS) profaned, dishonoured wicked one Ezekiel 21:30 (so AV Thes MV SS Co Or; but RV H" deadly wounded, Ew Sm fallen, slain); plural construct חַלְלֵי רְשָׁעִים Ezekiel 21:34; feminine singular חֲלָלָה of woman sexually dishonoured Leviticus 21:7, 14 (H; || זָנָה).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

21:7; 21:14

Numbers

19:16; 19:18; 23:24; 31:8; 31:19

Deuteronomy

21:1

1 Samuel

17:52

2 Samuel

23:8; 23:18

1 Chronicles

11:11; 11:20

Psalms

69:27; 69:27

Isaiah

22:2; 22:2; 66:16

Jeremiah

14:18; 25:33; 51:49; 51:52

Lamentations

2:12; 4:9; 4:9

Ezekiel

6:7; 21:30; 26:15; 30:11; 30:24; 31:17; 31:18; 32:20; 32:21; 32:25; 32:28; 32:29; 32:30; 32:31; 32:32

Zephaniah

2:12

H2491

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2491 matches the Hebrew חָלָל (ḥālāl),
which occurs 94 times in 85 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (Jer 51:52–Zep 2:12)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:52

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:52 - “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,
when I will execute judgment upon her images,
and through all her land
the wounded shall groan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 - They cry to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 - Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:7 - And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - Then he said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out.” So they went out and struck in the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6 - You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron, but you shall be brought out of the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:14 - “As for you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yes, three times,[fn] the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25 - And you, O profane[fn] wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:15 - “Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:8 - They shall thrust you down into the pit,
and you shall die the death of the slain
in the heart of the seas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:23 - for I will send pestilence into her,
and blood into her streets;
and the slain shall fall in her midst,
by the sword that is against her on every side.
Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4 - A sword shall come upon Egypt,
and anguish shall be in Cush,
when the slain fall in Egypt,
and her wealth[fn] is carried away,
and her foundations are torn down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 - He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations,
shall be brought in to destroy the land,
and they shall draw their swords against Egypt
and fill the land with the slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:24 - And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a man mortally wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17 - They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:18 - “Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:20 - They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt[fn] is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:21 - The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22 - “Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:23 - whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24 - “Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:28 - But as for you, you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:29 - “Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:30 - “The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:31 - “When Pharaoh sees them, he will be comforted for all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:32 - For I spread terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:8 - And I will fill its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:26 - Even those who eat his food shall break him. His army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:3 - Horsemen charging,
flashing sword and glittering spear,
hosts of slain,
heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
they stumble over the bodies!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12 - You also, O Cushites,
shall be slain by my sword.

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