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# חַלְחוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2478

**Halhul** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Halhul [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2478/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַלְחוּל: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2478/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. town in Judah, Jos 15:58 LagOnom. 119. 7, 2nd ed. 152 Elul in tribu Iuda, cf. Alula juxta Chebron; mod. Ḥalḥûl, 1 1/2 hour (3 1/2 miles) N. from Hebron, v. Di (and reff.) Bla RobBR iii. 281 f. Guérin Judée iii. 284 ff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Halhul (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:58](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.58/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.58/#tree)

חַלְח֥וּל בֵּֽית־צ֖וּרבֵּֽית־צ֖וּר וּגְדֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* Halhul Beth Zur and Gedor

*JPS 1917:* Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2478/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).