# H2490 חָלַל

חָלַל (châlal), Strong’s H2490: 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… KJV: begin…

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*châlal* — 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…

KJV: begin ([idiom] men began), defile, [idiom] break, defile, [idiom] eat (as common…

Derived from [חָלִיל châlîyl](https://besorah.bible/word/H2485) (a flute)

Occurs 143 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חָלַל] vb. pollute, defile, profane
- Niph.
- 1 reflex. pollute, defile oneself
- 2 Pass., be polluted, defiled
- Pi.
- 1 defile, pollute
- 2 violate the honour of, dishonour
- 3 violate a covenant
- 4 treat a vineyard as common
- Pu. my great name which is profaned among the nations
- Hiph.
- a I will not let my holy name be profaned any more.
- b he shall not violate his word
- 2 begin
- Hoph. then it was begun (= men began) to call on the name of י׳
- חלל vb. denom
- [חלל] vb. denom. play the pipe, pipe
- Qal as well the singers as the pipe-players
- Polel dancers
- Pi. and the people piped with pipes
- חָלַל vb
- חָלַל vb. bore, pierce
- Qal my heart is pierced (wounded) within me
- Pi. in the hand of the ones wounding thee
- Pu. pierced by the sword
- Po‛el his hand pierced the fleeing serpent
- Po‛al pierced, wounded because of our transgressions

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=26) — A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the LORD’s name.
- [Genesis 6:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=1) — When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
- [Genesis 9:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=20) — Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
- [Genesis 10:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=8) — Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
- [Genesis 11:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=6) — The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now…
- [Genesis 41:54](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=54) — The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of…
- [Genesis 44:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=12) — He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
- [Genesis 49:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=4) — Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to…
- [Exodus 20:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=25) — If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have…
- [Exodus 31:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/31?v=14) — You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for…