H2490
חָלַל
chalal
khaw-lal'
Verb
a primitive root (compare H2470); 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 by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from H2485) to play (the flute):--begin (X men began), defile, × break, defile, × eat (as common things), × first, × gather the grape thereof, × take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
- to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin
- (Niphal)
- to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself 1a
- ritually 1a
- sexually
- to be polluted, be defiled
- (Piel)
- to profane, make common, defile, pollute
- to violate the honour of, dishonour
- to violate (a covenant)
- to treat as common
- (Pual) to profane (name of God)
- (Hiphil)
- to let be profaned
- to begin
- (Hophal) to be begun
- (Niphal)
- to wound (fatally), bore through, pierce, bore
- (Qal) to pierce
- (Pual) to be slain
- (Poel) to wound, pierce
- (Poal) to be wounded
- (Piel) to play the flute or pipe
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