Strong's Concordance H2490

Original Word: חָלַל
Transliteration: châlal
Phonetic Spelling: khaw-lal'
a primitive root (compare H2470); also denominative (from H2485); 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'); to play (the flute); begin (× 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.

Usages throughout the bible

1 Kings 1:40 - And all the people came up after him, and the people piped H2490 with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

2 Kings 10:32 - In those days the LORD began H2490 to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

2 Kings 15:37 - In those days the LORD began H2490 to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

1 Chronicles 1:10 - And Cush begat Nimrod: he began H2490 to be mighty upon the earth.

1 Chronicles 5:1 - Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled H2490 his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

1 Chronicles 27:24 - Joab the son of Zeruiah began H2490 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.

2 Chronicles 3:1 - Then Solomon began H2490 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.

2 Chronicles 3:2 - And he began H2490 to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 20:22 - And when they began H2490 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.

2 Chronicles 29:17 - Now they began H2490 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.

2 Chronicles 29:27 - And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, H2490 the song of the LORD began H2490 also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 31:7 - In the third month they began H2490 to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

2 Chronicles 31:10 - And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began H2490 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.

2 Chronicles 31:21 - And in every work that he began H2490 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.

2 Chronicles 34:3 - For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began H2490 to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began H2490 to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

Ezra 3:6 - From the first day of the seventh month began H2490 they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

Ezra 3:8 - Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began H2490 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.

Nehemiah 4:7 - 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 H2490 to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

Nehemiah 13:17 - Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane H2490 the sabbath day?

Nehemiah 13:18 - Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning H2490 the sabbath.

Esther 6:13 - 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 H2490 to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

Esther 9:23 - And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, H2490 and as Mordecai had written unto them;

Psalms 55:20 - He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken H2490 his covenant.

Psalms 74:7 - They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled H2490 by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

Psalms 87:7 - As well the singers as the players H2490 on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

Psalms 89:31 - If they break H2490 my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

Psalms 89:34 - My covenant will I not break, H2490 nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Psalms 89:39 - Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned H2490 his crown by casting it to the ground.

Psalms 109:22 - For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded H2490 within me.

Isaiah 23:9 - The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain H2490 the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Isaiah 43:28 - Therefore I have profaned H2490 the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

Isaiah 47:6 - I was wroth with my people, I have polluted H2490 mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Isaiah 48:11 - For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? H2490 and I will not give my glory unto another.

Isaiah 51:9 - Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded H2490 the dragon?

Isaiah 53:5 - But he was wounded H2490 for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 56:2 - Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting H2490 it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

Isaiah 56:6 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting H2490 it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

Jeremiah 16:18 - And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled H2490 my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

Jeremiah 25:29 - For, lo, I begin H2490 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.

Jeremiah 31:5 - Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. H2490

Jeremiah 34:16 - But ye turned and polluted H2490 my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

Lamentations 2:2 - The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted H2490 the kingdom and the princes thereof.

Ezekiel 7:21 - And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute H2490 it.

Ezekiel 7:22 - My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute H2490 my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile H2490 it.

Ezekiel 7:24 - Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. H2490

Ezekiel 9:6 - 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 H2490 at my sanctuary. Then they began H2490 at the ancient men which were before the house.

Ezekiel 13:19 - And will ye pollute H2490 me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Ezekiel 20:9 - But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted H2490 before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:13 - But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: H2490 then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 20:14 - But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted H2490 before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.