King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2491
Transliteration: chalal
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lawl')
Part of Speech: noun masculine; Adjective
Short Definition: pierced
Meaning: pierced, polluted
Word Summary
chalal: pierced
Original Word: חָלָלTransliteration: chalal
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lawl')
Part of Speech: noun masculine; Adjective
Short Definition: pierced
Meaning: pierced, polluted
Strong's Concordance
kill, profane, slain man, slew, deadly wounded From chalal; pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted -- kill, profane, slain (man), X slew, (deadly) wounded.
see HEBREW chalal
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2491. chalal
I. חָלָל90 noun masculine pierced, ׳ח absolute Deuteronomy 21:1 25t.; construct חֲלַל Numbers 19:16; plural חֲלָלִים 23:24 28t.; construct חַלְלֵי Isaiah 22:2 21t.; suffix חֲלָלֶיךָ Psalm 69:27, etc. + 11 t. suffixes; —
1 pierced, fatally wounded Psalm 69:27; Jeremiah 51:52; Ezekiel 26:15; 30:24; Lamentations 2:12. Elsewhere
2 slain Numbers 19:18; 31:8, 19 (P), etc.; singular collective 2 Samuel 23:8, 18 = 1 Chronicles 11:11, 20; Ezekiel 6:7; 30:11, etc., but usually plural 1 Samuel 17:52 (RV wounded) Jeremiah 51:49, etc.; חֶרֶב חַלְלֵי Isaiah 22:2; Jeremiah 14:18; Ezekiel 31:17-18, 32:20-21, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32; Zephaniah 2:12; Lamentations 4:9; רעב חַלְלֵי 4:9; יהוה חַלְלֵי Isaiah 66:16; Jeremiah 25:33.
II. חָלָל adjective profaned; — רָשָׁע חָלָל (read construct חֲלַל SS) profaned, dishonoured wicked one Ezekiel 21:30 (so AV Thes MV SS Co Or; but RV H" deadly wounded, Ew Sm fallen, slain); plural construct רְשָׁעִים חַלְלֵי Ezekiel 21:34; feminine singular חֲלָלָה of woman sexually dishonoured Leviticus 21:7, 14 (H; "" זָנָה).