H2490C–חָלַל–cha.lal

In that day I establish unto Eli all that I have spoken unto his house, beginning and completing;

הָחֵ֖ל ha.Chel “beginning”

And Saul buildeth an alter to Jehovah; with it he hath begun to build altars to Jehovah.

הֵחֵ֔ל he.Chel “he began”

To-day have I begun to ask for him at God? far be it from me! let not the king lay anything against his servant, against any of the house of my father, for thy servant hath known nothing of all this, less or more.'

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

In those days hath Jehovah begun to cut off `some' in Israel, and Hazael smiteth them in all the border of Israel,

הֵחֵ֣ל he.Chel “he began”

In those days hath Jehovah begun to send against Judah Rezin king of Amram and Pekah son of Remaliah.

הֵחֵ֣ל he.Chel “he began”

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the land.

הֵחֵ֔ל he.Chel “he began”

Joab son of Zeruiah hath begun to number -- and hath not finished -- and there is for this wrath against Israel, and the number hath not gone up in the account of the Chronicles of king David.

הֵחֵ֤ל he.Chel “he began”

And Solomon beginneth to build the house of Jehovah, in Jerusalem, in the mount of 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 beginneth to build in the second `day', in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

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

And at the time they have begun with singing and praise, Jehovah hath put ambushments against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who are coming in to Judah, and they are smitten,

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

And they begin on the first of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they have come to the porch of Jehovah, and they sanctify the house of Jehovah in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they have finished.

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

And Hezekiah saith to cause the burnt-offering to ascend on the altar; and at the time the burnt-offering began -- began the song of Jehovah, and the trumpets, even by the hands of the instruments of David king of Israel.

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

in the third month they have begun to lay the foundation of the heaps, and in the seventh month they have finished.

הֵחֵ֥לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

and Azariah the head priest, of the house of Zadok, speaketh unto him, and saith, `From the beginning of the bringing of the heave-offering to the house of Jehovah, `there is' to eat, and to be satisfied, and to leave abundantly, for Jehovah hath blessed His people, and that left `is' this store.'

מֵהָחֵ֨ל (הָחֵ֨ל) ha.Chel “when began”

and in every work that he hath begun for the service of the house of God, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his God, with all his heart he hath wrought and prospered.

הֵחֵ֣ל׀ he.Chel “he began”

And in the eighth year of his reign (and he yet a youth), he hath begun to seek to the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he hath begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the shrines, 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 have begun to cause burnt-offerings to ascend to Jehovah, and the temple of Jehovah hath not been founded,

הֵחֵ֕לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

And in the second year of their coming in unto the house of God, to Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those coming from the captivity to Jerusalem, and they appoint the Levites from a son of twenty years and upward, to overlook the work of the house of Jehovah.

הֵחֵ֡לּוּ he.Che.lu “they began”

And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening hath gone up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped, then it is very displeasing to them,

הֵחֵ֥לּוּ he.Che.lu “they had begun”

and Haman recounteth to Zeresh his wife, and to all his friends, all that hath met him, and his wise men say to him, and Zeresh his wife, `If Mordecai `is' of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou art not able for him, but dost certainly fall before him.'

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

And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,

הֵחֵ֖לּוּ he.Che.lu “they had begun”

For lo, in the city over which My name is called, I am beginning to do evil, And ye -- ye are entirely acquitted! Ye are not acquitted, for a sword I am proclaiming, For all inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

מֵחֵ֣ל me.Chel “[am] beginning”

aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay -- to destruction; and against any man on whom `is' the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

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

Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.

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

And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, `Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'

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