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# חָלָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2491

**pierced** — used 91 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

pierced [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2491/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָלָל: n.m. pierced [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2491/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pierced, ח׳ abs. Dt. 21:1 + 25 times; cstr. חֲלַל Nu 19:16; pl. חֲלָלִים Nu 23:24 + 28 times; cstr. חַלְלֵי Is 22:2 + 21 times; sf. חֲלָלֶיךָ ψ 69:27, etc. + 11 times sfs.;— pierced, fatally wounded ψ 69:27 Je 51:52 Ez 26:15; 30:24 La 2:12 Jb 24:12. slain Nu 19:18; 31:8, 19 (P), etc.; sg. coll. 2 S 23:8, 18 = 1 Ch 11:11, 20 Ez 6:7; 30:11, etc., but usually pl. Gn 34:27 1 S 17:52 (RV wounded) Je 51:49, etc.; †חַלְלֵי חֶרֶב Is 22:2 Je 14:18 Ez 31:17, 18; 32:20, 21, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 Zp 2:12 La 4:9; חַלְלֵי רעב La 4:9; חַלְלֵי יהוה Is 66:16 Je 25:33.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 37 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: slain (23); \[those\] slain (22); \[the\] slain (5).

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 2:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.12/#tree)

גַּם־אַתֶּ֣ם כּוּשִׁ֔ים חַֽלְלֵ֥י חַרְבִּ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* also you O.Cushites \[are.those\].slain my.sword my they

*JPS 1917:* Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by My sword.

[Proverbs 7:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.26/#tree)

כִּֽי־רַבִּ֣ים חֲלָלִ֣ים הִפִּ֑ילָה וַ֝עֲצֻמִ֗ים כָּל־הֲרֻגֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) many slain.\[ones\] she.has.made.fall and.\[are\] numerous all her.killed \[men\]

*JPS 1917:* For she hath cast down many wounded; yea, a mighty host are all her slain.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2491.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2491/): 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).