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H2490Cחָלַלcha.lal

to profane/begin: beginPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 7
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 3
  5. 7
  6. 1
  7. 8
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 4
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2
  13. 2
  14. 11
  15. 2
  16. 1
  17. 2
  18. Job: 0
  19. Psalms: 0
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. Isaiah: 0
  24. 1
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 2
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 1
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. 1
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

Renderings

JPS Tanakh 1917 is not aligned yet, so there are no renderings to show.

Other meanings of H2490

  • H2490Aחָלַלcha.lalto boreH:VOccurrences: 7
  • H2490Bחָלַלcha.lalto play fluteH:VOccurrences: 2
  • H2490Hחָלַלcha.lalto profane/begin: profaneH:VOccurrences: 75
  • H2490Iחָלַלcha.lalto profane/begin: fruitH:VOccurrences: 4

55 occurrences in 50 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. 1 Samuel 3:12

    In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even unto the end.

    הָחֵ֖ל ha.Chel “beginning”

  2. 1 Samuel 14:35

    And Saul built an altar unto the LORD; the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.

    הֵחֵ֔ל he.Chel “he began”

  3. 1 Samuel 22:15

    Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me; let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.'

    הַחִלֹּ֛תִי ha.chi.Lo.ti “did I begin?”

  4. 2 Kings 10:32

    In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short; and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel:

    הֵחֵ֣ל he.Chel “he began”

  5. 2 Kings 15:37

    In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

    הֵחֵ֣ל he.Chel “he began”

  6. 1 Chronicles 1:10

    And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

    הֵחֵ֔ל he.Chel “he began”

  7. 1 Chronicles 27:24

    Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

    הֵחֵ֤ל he.Chel “he began”

  8. 2 Chronicles 3:1

    Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father; for which provision had been made in the Place of David, in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    וַיָּ֣חֶל (יָּ֣חֶל) i.Ya.chel “he began”

  9. 2 Chronicles 3:2

    And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

    וַ֠יָּחֶל (יָּחֶל) i.ya.chel “he began”

  10. 2 Chronicles 20:22

    And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, that were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

    הֵחֵ֨לּוּ he.Che.lu “[when] they began”

  11. 2 Chronicles 29:17

    Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD; and they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

    וַ֠יָּחֵלּוּ (יָּחֵלּוּ) i.ya.che.lu “they began”

  12. 2 Chronicles 29:27

    And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-offering upon the altar. And when the burnt-offering began, the song of the LORD began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David king of Israel.

    הֵחֵ֣ל he.Chel “[when] it began”הֵחֵ֤ל he.Chel “it began”

  13. 2 Chronicles 31:7

    In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

    הֵחֵ֥לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

  14. 2 Chronicles 31:10

    And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said: 'Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty; for the LORD hath blessed His people; and that whic

    מֵהָחֵ֨ל (הָחֵ֨ל) ha.Chel “when began”

  15. 2 Chronicles 31:21

    And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

    הֵחֵ֣ל׀ he.Chel “he began”

  16. 2 Chronicles 34:3

    For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten im

    הֵחֵ֕ל he.Chel “he began”הֵחֵל֙ he.Chel “he began”

  17. Ezra 3:6

    From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD; but the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

    הֵחֵ֕לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

  18. Ezra 3:8

    Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come

    הֵחֵ֡לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

  19. Nehemiah 4:1

    But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;

    הֵחֵ֥לּוּ he.Che.lu “they had begun”

  20. Esther 6:13

    And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him: 'If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail aga

    הַחִלּ֨וֹתָ ha.chi.Lo.ta “you have begun”

  21. Esther 9:23

    And the Jews took upon them to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

    הֵחֵ֖לּוּ he.Che.lu “they had begun”

  22. Jeremiah 25:29

    For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city whereupon My name is called, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

    מֵחֵ֣ל me.Chel “[am] beginning”

  23. Ezekiel 9:6

    slay utterly the old man, the young man and the maiden, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.' Then they began at the elders that were before the house.

    תָּחֵ֑לּוּ ta.Che.lu “you will begin”וַיָּחֵ֙לּוּ֙ (יָּחֵ֙לּוּ֙) i.ya.Che.lu “they began”

  24. Hosea 8:10

    Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them up; and they begin to be minished by reason of the burden of king and princes.

    וַיָּחֵ֣לּוּ (יָּחֵ֣לּוּ) i.ya.Che.lu “they have begun”

  25. Jonah 3:4

    And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said: 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'

    וַיָּ֤חֶל (יָּ֤חֶל) i.Ya.chel “he began”