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

Ezekiel 20:16 - Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted H2490 my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:21 - Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted H2490 my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:22 - Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted H2490 in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

Ezekiel 20:24 - Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted H2490 my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

Ezekiel 20:39 - As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute H2490 ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

Ezekiel 22:8 - Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned H2490 my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 22:16 - And thou shalt take thine inheritance H2490 in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:26 - Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned H2490 mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned H2490 among them.

Ezekiel 23:38 - Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned H2490 my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23:39 - For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane H2490 it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

Ezekiel 24:21 - Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane H2490 my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:3 - And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; H2490 and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

Ezekiel 28:7 - Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile H2490 thy brightness.

Ezekiel 28:9 - Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth H2490 thee.

Ezekiel 28:16 - By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane H2490 out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Ezekiel 28:18 - Thou hast defiled H2490 thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

Ezekiel 32:26 - There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain H2490 by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 36:20 - And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned H2490 my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

Ezekiel 36:21 - But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned H2490 among the heathen, whither they went.

Ezekiel 36:22 - Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned H2490 among the heathen, whither ye went.

Ezekiel 36:23 - And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned H2490 among the heathen, which ye have profaned H2490 in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

Ezekiel 39:7 - So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute H2490 my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

Ezekiel 44:7 - In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute H2490 it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

Daniel 11:31 - And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute H2490 the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

Hosea 8:10 - Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow H2490 a little for the burden of the king of princes.

Amos 2:7 - That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane H2490 my holy name:

Jonah 3:4 - And Jonah began H2490 to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Zephaniah 3:4 - Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted H2490 the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

Malachi 1:12 - But ye have profaned H2490 it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

Malachi 2:10 - Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning H2490 the covenant of our fathers?

Malachi 2:11 - Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned H2490 the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.