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# חֹל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2455

**profaneness** — used 7 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

profaneness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2455/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹל²: profaneness, commonness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2455/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] profaneness, commonness;—לֶחֶם חֹל 1 S 21:5, דֶּרֶךְ חֹל v 6; in concrete sense, opp. קֹדֶשׁ Lv 10:10 (P), Ez 22:26; 42:20; 44:23; 48:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a profane thing (3); of profaneness (2); \[will be\] a profane area (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 44:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.23/#tree)

וְאֶת־עַמִּ֣י יוֹר֔וּ בֵּ֥ין קֹ֖דֶשׁ לְחֹ֑ל וּבֵין־טָמֵ֥א לְטָה֖וֹר יוֹדִעֻֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) people my they.will.instruct between a.holy.thing and a.profane.thing and between an.unclean.\[thing\] and a.clean.\[thing\] they will.make.known.to.them

*JPS 1917:* And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

[Leviticus 10:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.10.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.10.10/#tree)

וּֽלֲהַבְדִּ֔יל בֵּ֥ין הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ וּבֵ֣ין הַחֹ֑ל וּבֵ֥ין הַטָּמֵ֖א וּבֵ֥ין הַטָּהֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and to separate between the.holy thing and between the.profane thing and between the.unclean \[thing\] and between the.clean \[thing\]

*JPS 1917:* And that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2455.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2455/): 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).