{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2491",
  "lemma": "חָלָל",
  "transliteration": "châlâl",
  "definition": "pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted",
  "kjv": "kill, profane, slain (man), [idiom] slew, (deadly) wounded.",
  "occurrences": 93,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H2490",
      "lemma": "חָלַל",
      "transliteration": "châlal",
      "meaning": "to bore",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H2490"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "חָלָל adj. profaned",
    "חָלָל n.m",
    "חָלָל 90 n.m. pierced",
    "1. pierced, fatally wounded",
    "2. slain"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 34:27",
      "text": "Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 21:7",
      "text": "“‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/21?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 21:14",
      "text": "He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/21?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 19:16",
      "text": "“Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/19?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 19:18",
      "text": "A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/19?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 23:24",
      "text": "Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 31:8",
      "text": "They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 31:19",
      "text": "“Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 21:1",
      "text": "If someone is found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 21:2",
      "text": "then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=2"
    }
  ],
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