Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2485
חָלִיל
chalilkhaw-leel'
flute
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châlîyl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2485is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2485
a flute (as perforated)
The King James renders it: pipe.
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
chalil is rendered "flute". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 10:5After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
1 Samuel 10:5וְחָלִ֣יל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and flute2
- like flutes2
- with flutes1
- with the flute1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חָלִילָה | chalilah | forbid | Uses21 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- בֶּֽחָלִ֔יל1
- בַּחֲלִלִ֔ים1
- וְחָלִ֣יל1
- וְחָלִ֛יל1
- כַּחֲלִילִ֖ים1
- כַּחֲלִלִ֣ים1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine plural3HR/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
1 Samuel
one use
After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
- וְחָלִ֣ילvechalilconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and flute
1 Kings
one use
All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
- בַּחֲלִלִ֔יםbachalilimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with flutes
Isaiah
two uses
At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
- וְחָלִ֛ילvechalilconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and flute
You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
- בֶּֽחָלִ֔ילbechalilpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the flute
Jeremiah
two uses
Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
- כַּחֲלִלִ֣יםkachalilimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like flutes
- כַּחֲלִילִ֖יםkachalilimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like flutes
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.