חוּל

Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

Genesis 8:10

• וַיָּ֣חֶלvaiyachelHc/VNw3mstagged: and he waited

This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”

Deuteronomy 2:25

• וְחָל֖וּvechaluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will be in anguish

You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Deuteronomy 32:18

• מְחֹלְלֶֽךָ׃mecholelekhaverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: gave birth to you

So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.

Judges 3:25

• וַיָּחִ֣ילוּvaiyachiluHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they writhed

and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

Judges 21:21

• לָח֣וּלlachulpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to dance

The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.

Judges 21:23

• הַמְּחֹלְל֖וֹתhamecholelotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the dancers

When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.

1 Samuel 31:3

• וַיָּ֥חֶלvaiyachelHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he was in severe pain

May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”

2 Samuel 3:29

• יָחֻ֙לוּ֙yachuluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them whirl

When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him.

1 Chronicles 10:3

• וַיָּ֖חֶלvaiyachelHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he was in severe pain

tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

1 Chronicles 16:30

• חִ֤ילוּchiluverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: tremble

When Esther’s maidens and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, the queen was overcome with distress. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

Esther 4:4

• וַתִּתְחַלְחַ֥לvatitchalchalHc/Vtw3fstagged: and she agonized

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

Job 15:7

• חוֹלָֽלְתָּ׃cholaltaverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: were you brought forth

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

Job 15:20

• מִתְחוֹלֵ֑לmitcholelverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: writhing in pain

Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.

Job 20:21

• יָחִ֥ילyachilverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will endure

The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

Job 26:5

• יְחוֹלָ֑לוּyecholaluverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are made to tremble

How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

Job 35:14

• וּתְח֥וֹלֵֽלutecholelHC/Vpu2mstagged: so you may wait

“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

Job 39:1

• חֹלֵ֖לcholelverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: giving birth of

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

Psalms 10:5

• יָ֘חִ֤ילוּyachiluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they endure

The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.

Psalms 29:8

• יָחִ֣ילyachilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it causes to tremble
• יָחִ֥ילyachilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he causes to tremble

The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”

Psalms 29:9

• יְחוֹלֵ֣לyecholelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it causes labor pains to

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

Psalms 37:7

• וְהִתְח֪וֹלֵ֫לvehitcholelconjunction (“and”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and wait longingly

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Psalms 51:5

• חוֹלָ֑לְתִּיcholaltiverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was brought forth

My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.

Psalms 55:4

• יָחִ֣ילyachilverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it trembles

The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.

Psalms 77:16

• יָחִ֑ילוּyachiluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they writhed in agony

Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

Psalms 90:2

• וַתְּח֣וֹלֵֽלvatecholelHc/Vpw2mstagged: and you brought forth

Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.

Psalms 96:9

• חִ֥ילוּchiluverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: tremble

His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.

Psalms 97:4

• וַתָּחֵ֣לvatachelHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it trembled

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Psalms 114:7

• ח֣וּלִיchuliverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: tremble

When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.

Proverbs 8:24

• חוֹלָ֑לְתִּיcholaltiverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was brought forth

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

Proverbs 8:25

• חוֹלָֽלְתִּי׃cholaltiverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was brought forth

As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

Proverbs 25:23

• תְּח֣וֹלֵֽלtecholelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it brings forth

Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

Isaiah 13:8

• יְחִיל֑וּןyechilunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will be in anguish

Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

Isaiah 23:4

• חַ֣לְתִּיchaltiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have been in labor

When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.

Isaiah 23:5

• יָחִ֖ילוּyachiluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will be in anguish

As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

Isaiah 26:17

• תָּחִ֥ילtachilverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she is in labor

We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.

Isaiah 26:18

• חַ֔לְנוּchalnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we were in labor

Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

Isaiah 45:10

• תְּחִילִֽין׃ סtechilinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singular + paragogic nuntagged: are you in labor with

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.

Isaiah 51:2

• תְּחוֹלֶלְכֶ֑םtecholelkhemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: she gave birth to you

“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.

Isaiah 54:1

• חָ֔לָהchalahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has been in labor

“Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

Isaiah 66:7

• תָּחִ֖ילtachilverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she was in labor

Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.

Isaiah 66:8

• הֲי֤וּחַלhayuchalquestion particle + verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will it be brought forth
• חָ֛לָהchalahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she was in labor

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Jeremiah 5:3

• חָ֔לוּchaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they writhed

Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

Jeremiah 5:22

• תָחִ֔ילוּtachiluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: do you tremble

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

Jeremiah 23:19

• מִתְחוֹלֵ֑לmitcholelverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: whirling
• יָחֽוּל׃yachulverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will whirl about

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

Jeremiah 30:23

• יָחֽוּל׃yachulverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will whirl about

The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:29

• וַתָּחֹ֑לvatacholHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it writhed

The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

Lamentations 4:6

• חָ֥לוּchaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they twisted

I will set fire to Egypt, Pelusium will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be split open, and Memphis will face daily distress.

Ezekiel 30:16

• ח֤וּלchulverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: surely writhe in agony
• תָּחוּל֙tachilverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will writhe in agony

A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.

Hosea 11:6

• וְחָלָ֥הvechalahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will whirl

Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.

Joel 2:6

• יָחִ֣ילוּyachiluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are in anguish

For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

Micah 1:12

• חָ֥לָֽהchalahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she is in anguish

Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!

Micah 4:10

• ח֧וּלִיchuliverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: writhe in pain

The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

Habakkuk 3:10

• יָחִ֙ילוּ֙yachiluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they writhe

Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.

Zechariah 9:5

• וְתָחִ֣ילvetachilHC/Vqu3fstagged: so it may be in anguish