חָלָל
ḥālāl
profaned
Strong's H2491NounHebrewTWOT 660a

חָלָל (ḥālāl) is a Hebrew noun meaning profaned. It appears 94 times in 21 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2491).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 660a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 660a)pierced; fatally wounded; slain; polluted; kill, profane, wounded
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

חָלָל noun, masculine: pierced

Strong's H2491 חָלָל: pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted
KJV:kill, profane, slain (man), × slew, (deadly) wounded.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 660: חָלַל ḥālal — bore, pierce; pierced by the sword; pierced; wound, dissolve, profane, break, begin, play; defile, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, prostitute, slay, sorrow, stain

See it in Scripture

Genesis 34:27Leviticus 21:7Numbers 19:16

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