H2490C–חָלַל–cha.lal

In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house; I will begin and make an end.

הָחֵ֖ל ha.Chel “beginning”

And Saul built an altar to Jehovah: this was the first altar he built to Jehovah.

הֵחֵ֔ל he.Chel “he began”

Was it to-day that I began to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king charge anything to his servant, [ergänzt: nor] to all the house of my father; for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.

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

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

הֵחֵ֣ל he.Chel “he began”

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

הֵחֵ֣ל he.Chel “he began”

And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

הֵחֵ֔ל he.Chel “he began”

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he did not finish; and there fell wrath for it upon Israel; and the number was not put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

הֵחֵ֤ל he.Chel “he began”

And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where he appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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

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

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

And when they began the song of triumph and praise, Jehovah set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who had come against Judah, and they were smitten.

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

And they began on the first of the first month to hallow, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of Jehovah; and they hallowed the house of Jehovah eight days; and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

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

And Hezekiah commanded to offer up the burnt-offering on the altar. And at the moment the burnt-offering began, the song of Jehovah began, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.

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

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

הֵחֵ֥לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, Since they began to bring the heave-offerings into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and been satisfied and have left plenty; for Jehovah has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store.

מֵהָחֵ֨ל (הָחֵ֨ל) ha.Chel “when began”

And in every work that he undertook 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”

And 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 Asherahs, and the graven images, and the molten images.

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

From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer up burnt-offerings to Jehovah. But the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not [ergänzt: yet] laid.

הֵחֵ֕לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

And in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem; and they appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to superintend the work of the house of Jehovah.

הֵחֵ֡לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

And it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being repaired, that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

הֵחֵ֥לּוּ he.Che.lu “they had begun”

And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and to all his friends all that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife to him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but wilt certainly fall before him.

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

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them.

הֵחֵ֖לּוּ he.Che.lu “they had begun”

For behold, I begin to bring evil on the city that is called by my name, and should ye be altogether unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.

מֵחֵ֣ל me.Chel “[am] beginning”

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 who were before the house.

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

Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes.

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

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

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