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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 BoxJer 51:52

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:52 - “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,
“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 - They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they swoon like the wounded
In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
In their mothers’ bosom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 - Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - ‘Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - Then He said to them, “Defile the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; but I shall bring you out of the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:14 - “You therefore, son of man, prophesy,
And strike your hands together.
The third time let the sword do double damage.
It is the sword that slays,
The sword that slays the great men,
That enters their private chambers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25 - ‘Now to you, O profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - While they see false visions for you,
While they divine a lie to you,
To bring you on the necks of the wicked, the slain
Whose day has come,
Whose iniquity shall end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:15

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:8 - They shall throw you down into the Pit,
And you shall die the death of the slain
In the midst of the seas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:23 - For I will send pestilence upon her,
And blood in her streets;
The wounded shall be judged in her midst
By the sword against her on every side;
Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4 - The sword shall come upon Egypt,
And great anguish shall be in Ethiopia,
When the slain fall in Egypt,
And they take away her wealth,
And her foundations are broken down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:24 - ‘I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17 - ‘They also went down to hell with it, with those slain by the sword; and those who were its strong arm dwelt in its shadows among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:18 - ‘To which of the trees in Eden will you then be likened in glory and greatness? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the depths of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:20 - “They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword;
She is delivered to the sword,
Drawing her and all her multitudes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:21 - The strong among the mighty
Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell
With those who help him:
‘They have gone down,
They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:22

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:23 - Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit,
And her company is all around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who caused terror in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24 - “There is Elam and all her multitude,
All around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth,
Who caused their terror in the land of the living;
Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:25 - They have set her bed in the midst of the slain,
With all her multitude,
With her graves all around it,
All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;
Though their terror was caused
In the land of the living,
Yet they bear their shame
With those who go down to the Pit;
It was put in the midst of the slain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:28 - Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
And lie with those slain by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:29 - “There is Edom,
Her kings and all her princes,
Who despite their might
Are laid beside those slain by the sword;
They shall lie with the uncircumcised,
And with those who go down to the Pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:30 - There are the princes of the north,
All of them, and all the Sidonians,
Who have gone down with the slain
In shame at the terror which they caused by their might;
They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword,
And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:31 - “Pharaoh will see them
And be comforted over all his multitude,
Pharaoh and all his army,
Slain by the sword,”
Says the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:32 - “For I have caused My terror in the land of the living;
And he shall be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised
With those slain by the sword,
Pharaoh and all his multitude,”
Says the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 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 who are slain by the sword shall fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:26 - “Yes, those who eat of the portion of his delicacies shall destroy him; his army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:3 - Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear.
There is a multitude of slain,
A great number of bodies,
Countless corpses—
They stumble over the corpses—

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12 - “You Ethiopians also,
You shall be slain by My sword.”

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