Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2455
חֹל
cholkhole
common
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chôl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2455is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2455
properly, exposed; hence, profane
The King James renders it: common, profane (place), unholy.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chol is rendered "common". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 10:10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Leviticus 10:10הַחֹ֑ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's seven uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and a profane thing3
- profaneness2
- a profane area1
- the profane thing1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֹלֶד | choled | weasel | Uses1 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַחֹ֑ל1
- חֹ֖ל1
- חֹ֔ל1
- חֹֽל־1
- לְחֹל֙1
- לְחֹ֑ל1
- לְחֹֽל׃1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular3HAamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular3HR/Aamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HTd/Aamsa
Leviticus
one use
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
- הַחֹ֑לhacholthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the profane thing
1 Samuel
two uses
“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
- חֹ֖לcholadjective · masculine singulartagged: profaneness
David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”
- חֹ֔לcholadjective · masculine singulartagged: profaneness
Ezekiel
four uses
Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
- לְחֹל֙lecholpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a profane thing
So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
- לְחֹֽל׃lecholpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a profane thing
They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
- לְחֹ֑לlecholpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a profane thing
The remaining area, 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, will be for common use by the city, for houses, and for pastureland. The city will be in the center of it
- חֹֽל־chol-adjective · masculine singulartagged: a profane area
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.