H2490C–חָלַל–cha.lal

In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

הָחֵ֖ל ha.Chel “beginning”

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”

Did I then begin 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 knew nothing of all this, less or more.

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

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

הֵחֵ֣ל he.Chel “he began”

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

הֵחֵ֣ל he.Chel “he began”

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

הֵחֵ֔ל he.Chel “he began”

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

הֵחֵ֤ל he.Chel “he began”

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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

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”

And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

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

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: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

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

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

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

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”

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 had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

מֵהָחֵ֨ל (הָחֵ֨ל) ha.Chel “when began”

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”

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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

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

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”

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 remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

הֵחֵ֡לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

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

הֵחֵ֥לּוּ he.Che.lu “they had begun”

And Haman told 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 be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely 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 unto them;

הֵחֵ֖לּוּ he.Che.lu “they had begun”

For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, 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”

Slay utterly old and young, both maids, 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 ancient men which were before the house.

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

Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for 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”