# H2491 חָלָל

חָלָל (châlâl), Strong’s H2491: pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted KJV: kill, profane, slain (man), [idiom] slew, (deadly) wounded.. Occurs 93 times.

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*châlâl* — pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted

KJV: kill, profane, slain (man), [idiom] slew, (deadly) wounded.

Derived from [חָלַל châlal](https://besorah.bible/word/H2490) (to bore)

Occurs 93 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָלָל adj. profaned
- חָלָל n.m
- חָלָל 90 n.m. pierced
- 1 pierced, fatally wounded
- 2 slain

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 34:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=27) — Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
- [Leviticus 21:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/21?v=7) — “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her…
- [Leviticus 21:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/21?v=14) — He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin…
- [Numbers 19:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/19?v=16) — “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…
- [Numbers 19:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/19?v=18) — A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons…
- [Numbers 23:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=24) — 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…
- [Numbers 31:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=8) — They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian…
- [Numbers 31:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=19) — “Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify…
- [Deuteronomy 21:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=1) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 21:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=2) — then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.