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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)
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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 1 / 2 (Gen 34:27–Jer 51:49)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:7 - ‘They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest[fn] is holy to his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - ‘A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - ‘Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - ‘A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 - Look, a people rises like a lioness,
And lifts itself up like a lion;
It shall not lie down until it devours the prey,
And drinks the blood of the slain.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8 - They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 - “And as for you, remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:1 - “If anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - “then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance from the slain man to the surrounding cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - “And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man will take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - “And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:42 - I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword shall devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - But the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:22 - The children of Israel also killed with the sword Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, among those who were killed by them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40 - And Abimelech chased him, and he fled from him; and many fell wounded, to the very entrance of the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:24 - When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said:

“Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy,
The destroyer of our land,
And the one who multiplied our dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - So the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city. They began to strike down and kill some of the people, as at the other times, in the highways (one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah) and in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - whereupon the men of Israel would turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty of the men of Israel. For they said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:52 - Now the men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as the entrance of the valley[fn] and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell along the road to Shaaraim, even as far as Gath and Ekron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:1 - Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8 - So it happened the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - “The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places!
How the mighty have fallen!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:22 - From the blood of the slain,
From the fat of the mighty,
The bow of Jonathan did not turn back,
And the sword of Saul did not return empty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 - “How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle!
Jonathan was slain in your high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:8 - These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-Basshebeth[fn] the Tachmonite, chief among the captains.[fn] He was called Adino the Eznite, because he had killed eight hundred men at one time.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:18 - Now Abishai the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of another three.[fn] He lifted his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name among these three.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:15 - For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, after he had killed every male in Edom

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:22 - for many fell dead, because the war was God’s. And they dwelt in their place until the captivity.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:1 - Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:8 - So it happened the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:11 - And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam the son of a Hachmonite, chief of the captains;[fn] he had lifted up his spear against three hundred, killed by him at one time.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:20 - Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of another three.[fn] He had lifted up his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name among these three.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - Then Abijah and his people struck them with a great slaughter; so five hundred thousand choice men of Israel fell slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 - The dying groan in the city,
And the souls of the wounded cry out;
Yet God does not charge them with wrong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:30 - Its young ones suck up blood;
And where the slain are, there it is.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:26 - For they persecute the ones You have struck,
And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:5 - Adrift among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And who are cut off from Your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:10 - You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain;
You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:26 - For she has cast down many wounded,
And all who were slain by her were strong men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:2 - You who are full of noise,
A tumultuous city, a joyous city?
Your slain men are not slain with the sword,
Nor dead in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3 - Also their slain shall be thrown out;
Their stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:16 - For by fire and by His sword
The LORD will judge all flesh;
And the slain of the LORD shall be many.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:1 - Oh, that my head were waters,
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:18 - If I go out to the field,
Then behold, those slain with the sword!
And if I enter the city,
Then behold, those sick from famine!
Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:33 - “And at that day the slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9 - Now the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain, because of Gedaliah, was the same one Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:4 - Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
And those thrust through in her streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:47 - Therefore behold, the days are coming
That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;
Her whole land shall be ashamed,
And all her slain shall fall in her midst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:49 - As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.

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