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# חָלִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2485

**flute** — used 6 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

flute [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2485/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָלִיל: n.m. flute, pipe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2485/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. flute, pipe, ח׳ 1 S 10:5 Is 5:12; 30:29; pl. חֲלִלִים 1 K 1:40 Je 48:36(×2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: flute (3); flutes (3).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 1:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.40/#tree)

וַיַּעֲל֤וּ כָל־הָעָם֙ אַֽחֲרָ֔יו וְהָעָם֙ מְחַלְּלִ֣ים בַּחֲלִלִ֔ים וּשְׂמֵחִ֖ים שִׂמְחָ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה וַתִּבָּקַ֥ע הָאָ֖רֶץ בְּקוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.up all the people after him and the people \[were\].playing.the.flute with flutes and \[they.were\].joyful joy great and it.was.split.open the earth by sound their

*JPS 1917:* And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

[Isaiah 5:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.12/#tree)

וְהָיָ֨ה כִנּ֜וֹר וָנֶ֗בֶל תֹּ֧ף וְחָלִ֛יל וָיַ֖יִן מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֑ם וְאֵ֨ת פֹּ֤עַל יְהוָה֙ לֹ֣א יַבִּ֔יטוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָדָ֖יו לֹ֥א רָאֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be harp and lyre tambourine and flute and wine feast their and (et) the.deed\[s\] of.Yahweh not they.pay.attention.to and the.work his.hands his not they.see

*JPS 1917:* And the harp and the psaltery, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of His hands.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2485.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2485/): 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).