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# חָלִילָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2486

**ad profanum!** — used 21 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ad profanum! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2486/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָלִילָה: subst. far be it [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2486/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** subst. c. ה loc., used as exclam. lit. ad profanum! i.e. far be it (for me, thee, etc.)! (v. BaNB 136)—ח׳ Gn 44:7 + 17 times, חָלִלָה Gn 18:25 + 2 times—alone, 1 S 14:45; 20:2; elsewhere c. לְ pers.: Gn 18:25b (J), 1 S 2:30; 20:9; 22:15; + מִן and inf. of act deprecated Gn 18:25a; 44:7, 17 (all J), Jos 24:16 (E), 1 S 12:23 2 S 23:17; + מִמֶּנּוּ ל (peculiarly) Jos 22:29 (P; = from it, even to rebel); + אִם (= surely not) 2 S 20:20 (ח׳ ח׳), Jb 27:5; strengthened idiom. by מיהוה, ח׳לִי מִיּ׳ sq. מִן and inf. 1 S 26:11 1 K 21:3 + 2 S 23:17 (read מיהוה, 𝔊L 𝔖 𝔗) = 1 Ch 11:19 (מאלהי) sq. אִם 1 S 24:7; ח׳ לָאֵל מֵרֶשַׁע Jb 34:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: far (21).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 20:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.20/#tree)

וַיַּ֥עַן יוֹאָ֖ב וַיֹּאמַ֑ר חָלִ֤ילָה חָלִ֙ילָה֙ לִ֔י אִם־אֲבַלַּ֖ע וְאִם־אַשְׁחִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Joab and he.said far be.it far be.it to me if I.will.swallow.up and if I.will.destroy

*JPS 1917:* And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

[Job 27:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.5/#tree)

חָלִ֣ילָה לִּי֮ אִם־אַצְדִּ֪יק אֶ֫תְכֶ֥ם עַד־אֶגְוָ֑ע לֹא־אָסִ֖יר תֻּמָּתִ֣י מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

*Word for word:* far be.it to me if I.will.declare.right you until I.will.expire not I.will.put.aside integrity my from me

*JPS 1917:* Far be it from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2486/): 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).