חָלַל

And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 4:26

• הוּחַ֔לhuchalverb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was begun

Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1

• הֵחֵ֣לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it began

Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

Genesis 9:20

• וַיָּ֥חֶלvaiyachelHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he began

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

Genesis 10:8

• הֵחֵ֔לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Genesis 11:6

• הַחִלָּ֣םhachilamverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beginning they

the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:54

• וַתְּחִלֶּ֜ינָהvatechileinahHc/Vhw3fptagged: and they began

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Genesis 44:12

• הֵחֵ֔לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began

Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

Genesis 49:4

• חִלַּ֖לְתָּchilaltaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you profaned

Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

Exodus 20:25

• וַתְּחַֽלְלֶֽהָ׃vatechalehaHc/Vpw2ms/Sp3fstagged: and you have profaned it

Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.

Exodus 31:14

• מְחַֽלְלֶ֙יהָ֙mechaleihaverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: profane it

You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:21

• תְחַלֵּ֛לtechalelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will profane

Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 19:8

• חִלֵּ֑לchilelverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has profaned

You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:12

• וְחִלַּלְתָּ֛vechilaltaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will profane

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Leviticus 19:29

• תְּחַלֵּ֥לtechalelverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you profane

And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.

Leviticus 20:3

• וּלְחַלֵּ֖לulechalelconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to profane

He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.

Leviticus 21:4

• לְהֵ֖חַלּֽוֹ׃lehechalopreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to profane himself

They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the offerings made by fire, the food of their God, they must be holy.

Leviticus 21:6

• יְחַלְּל֔וּyechaleluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will profane

If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.

Leviticus 21:9

• תֵחֵ֖לtechelverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will profane herself
• מְחַלֶּ֔לֶתmechaleletverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: profaning

He must not leave or desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 21:12

• יְחַלֵּ֔לyechalelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will profane

so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”

Leviticus 21:15

• יְחַלֵּ֥לyechalelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will profane

but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

Leviticus 21:23

• יְחַלֵּל֙yechalelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will profane

“Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 22:2

• יְחַלְּל֖וּyechaleluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will profane

The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Leviticus 22:9

• יְחַלְּלֻ֑הוּyechaleluhuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they will profane it

The priests must not profane the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD

Leviticus 22:15

• יְחַלְּל֔וּyechaleluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will profane

You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,

Leviticus 22:32

• תְחַלְּלוּ֙techaleluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will profane

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

Numbers 16:46

• הֵחֵ֥לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has begun

So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people.

Numbers 16:47

• הֵחֵ֥לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had begun

Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

Numbers 18:32

• תְחַלְּל֖וּtechaleluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will profane

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 25:1

• וַיָּ֣חֶלvaiyachelHc/Vhw3mstagged: and it began

If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.

Numbers 30:2

• יַחֵ֖לyachelverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will violate

“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

Deuteronomy 2:24

• הָחֵ֣לhachelverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: begin

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

• אָחֵל֙ʾachelverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will begin

Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

Deuteronomy 2:31

• הַֽחִלֹּ֙תִי֙hachilotiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have begun
• הָחֵ֣לhachelverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: begin

“O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?

Deuteronomy 3:24

• הַֽחִלּ֙וֹתָ֙hachilotaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have begun

You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

Deuteronomy 16:9

• מֵהָחֵ֤לmehachelpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from when begins
• תָּחֵ֣לtachelverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will begin

Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.

Deuteronomy 20:6

• חִלְּל֔וֹchileloverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has put to use it
• יְחַלְּלֶֽנּוּ׃yechallelenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will put to use it

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:30

• תְחַלְּלֶּֽנּוּ׃techallelenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will put to use it

Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

Joshua 3:7

• אָחֵל֙ʾachelverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will begin

And the rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all who live in Gilead.”

Judges 10:18

• יָחֵ֔לyachelverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will begin

For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

Judges 13:5

• יָחֵ֛לyachelverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will begin

And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 13:25

• וַתָּ֙חֶל֙vatachelHc/Vhw3fstagged: and it began

And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.

Judges 16:19

• וַתָּ֙חֶל֙vatachelHc/Vhw3fstagged: and she began

However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

Judges 16:22

• וַיָּ֧חֶלvaiyachelHc/Vhw3mstagged: and it began

The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

Judges 20:31

• וַיָּחֵ֡לּוּvaiyacheluHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they began

the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”

Judges 20:39

• הֵחֵל֩hechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it began

But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.

Judges 20:40

• הֵחֵ֛לָּהhechelahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it began

And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.

1 Samuel 3:2

• הֵחֵ֣לּוּhecheluverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they began

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.

1 Samuel 3:12

• הָחֵ֖לhachelverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: beginning

Then Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first time he had built an altar to the LORD.

1 Samuel 14:35

• הֵחֵ֔לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began

Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”

1 Samuel 22:15

• הַחִלֹּ֛תִיhachilotiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: did I begin

All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.

1 Kings 1:40

• מְחַלְּלִ֣יםmechalelimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: playing flute

In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory

2 Kings 10:32

• הֵחֵ֣לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began

(In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)

2 Kings 15:37

• הֵחֵ֣לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

1 Chronicles 1:10

• הֵחֵ֔לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began

These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.

1 Chronicles 5:1

• וּֽבְחַלְּלוֹ֙uvechaleloconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and when profaned he

Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.

1 Chronicles 27:24

• הֵחֵ֤לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 3:1

• וַיָּ֣חֶלvaiyachelHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he began

Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 3:2

• וַ֠יָּחֶלvaiyachelHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he began

The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.

2 Chronicles 20:22

• הֵחֵ֨לּוּhecheluverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they began

They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.

2 Chronicles 29:17

• וַ֠יָּחֵלּוּvaiyacheluHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they began

And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:27

• הֵחֵ֣לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it began
• הֵחֵ֤לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it began

In the third month they began building up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.

2 Chronicles 31:7

• הֵחֵ֥לּוּhecheluverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they began

and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”

2 Chronicles 31:10

• מֵהָחֵ֨לmehachelpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from when began

He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.

2 Chronicles 31:21

• הֵחֵ֣ל׀hechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

2 Chronicles 34:3

• הֵחֵ֕לhechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began
• הֵחֵל֙hechelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he began

On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.

Ezra 3:6

• הֵחֵ֕לּוּhecheluverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they began

In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.

Ezra 3:8

• הֵחֵ֡לּוּhecheluverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they began

When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,

Nehemiah 4:7

• הֵחֵ֥לּוּhecheluverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had begun

Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?

Nehemiah 13:17

• וּֽמְחַלְּלִ֖יםumechalelimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and profaning

Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”

Nehemiah 13:18

• לְחַלֵּ֖לlechalelpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by profaning

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”

Esther 6:13

• הַחִלּ֨וֹתָhachilotaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have begun

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

Esther 9:23

• הֵחֵ֖לּוּhecheluverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had begun

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 26:13

• חֹֽלֲלָ֥הcholalahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it pierced

My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.

Psalms 55:20

• חִלֵּ֥לchilelverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he violated

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.

Psalms 74:7

• חִלְּל֥וּchileluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they profaned

Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”

Psalms 87:7

• כְּחֹלְלִ֑יםkecholelimpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: like pipers

if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

Psalms 89:31

• יְחַלֵּ֑לוּyechaleluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will violate

I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

Psalms 89:34

• אֲחַלֵּ֥לʾachalelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will violate

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

Psalms 89:39

• חִלַּ֖לְתָּchilaltaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have profaned

For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

Psalms 109:22

• חָלַ֥לchalalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone has pierced

Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.

Proverbs 26:10

• מְחֽוֹלֵֽל־mecholel-verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: wounds

The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

Isaiah 23:9

• לְחַלֵּל֙lechalelpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to profane

So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

Isaiah 43:28

• וַאֲחַלֵּ֖לvaachalelHC/Vpu1cstagged: so I may profane

I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

Isaiah 47:6

• חִלַּ֙לְתִּי֙chilaltiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I profaned

For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.

Isaiah 48:11

• יֵחָ֑לyechalverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will it be profaned

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

Isaiah 51:9

• מְחוֹלֶ֥לֶתmecholeletverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pierced

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

• מְחֹלָ֣לmecholalverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: pierced

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Isaiah 56:2

• מֵֽחַלְּל֔וֹmechalelopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from profaning it

And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—

Isaiah 56:6

• מֵֽחַלְּל֔וֹmechalelopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from profaning it

And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

Jeremiah 16:18

• חַלְּלָ֣םchalelamverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: have profaned they

For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’

Jeremiah 25:29

• מֵחֵ֣לmechelverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: beginning

Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.

Jeremiah 31:5

• וְחִלֵּֽלוּ׃vechileluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will put to use

But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

Jeremiah 34:16

• וַתְּחַלְּל֣וּvatechaleluHc/Vpw2mptagged: and you profaned

Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:2

• חִלֵּ֥לchilelverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has profaned

And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

Ezekiel 7:21

• וְחִלְּלֽוּהוּ׃vechilluhuHc/Vpq3cp/Sp3fstagged: and they will profane it

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

Ezekiel 7:22

• וְחִלְּל֖וּvechileluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will profane
• וְחִלְּלֽוּהָ׃ פvechileluhaHc/Vpq3cp/Sp3fstagged: and they will profane it

So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.

Ezekiel 7:24

• וְנִחֲל֖וּvenichaluHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be profaned

Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.

Ezekiel 9:6

• תָּחֵ֑לּוּtacheluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will begin
• וַיָּחֵ֙לּוּ֙vaiyacheluHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they began

You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.

Ezekiel 13:19

• וַתְּחַלֶּלְ֨נָהvatechalelnahHc/Vpw2fptagged: and you have profaned

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:9

• הֵחֵ֛לhechelverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be profaned

Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:13

• חִלְּל֣וּchileluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they profaned

But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:14

• הֵחֵל֙hechelverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be profaned

because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:16

• חִלֵּ֑לוּchileluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had profaned

But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:21

• חִלֵּ֑לוּchileluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they profaned

But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:22

• הֵחֵל֙hechelverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be profaned

For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.

Ezekiel 20:24

• חִלֵּ֑לוּchileluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had profaned

And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.

Ezekiel 20:39

• תְחַלְּלוּ־techalelu-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will profane

You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 22:8

• חִלָּֽלְתְּ׃chilaletverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have profaned

And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

Ezekiel 22:16

• וְנִחַ֥לְתְּvenichaltHc/VNq2fstagged: and you will be profaned

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.

Ezekiel 22:26

• וַיְחַלְּל֣וּvaychaleluHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they have profaned
• וָאֵחַ֖לvaechalHc/VNw1cstagged: and I have been profaned

They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23:38

• חִלֵּֽלוּ׃chileluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have profaned

On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.

Ezekiel 23:39

• לְחַלְּל֑וֹlechalelopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to profane it

Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’

Ezekiel 24:21

• מְחַלֵּ֤לmechalelverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to profane

Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,

Ezekiel 25:3

• נִחָ֗לnichalverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was profaned

behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 28:7

• וְחִלְּל֖וּvechileluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will profane

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

Ezekiel 28:9

• מְחַלְלֶֽיךָ׃mechaleikhaverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: pierce you

By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

Ezekiel 28:16

• וָאֶחַלֶּלְךָ֩vaechalelkhaHc/Vpw1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I profaned you

By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.

Ezekiel 28:18

• חִלַּ֖לְתָּchilaltaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you profaned

Meshech and Tubal are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:26

• מְחֻ֣לְלֵיmechuleiverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pierced of

And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’

Ezekiel 36:20

• וַֽיְחַלְּל֖וּvaychaleluHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they profaned

But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.

Ezekiel 36:21

• חִלְּל֙וּהוּ֙chileluhuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they had profaned it

Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.

Ezekiel 36:22

• חִלַּלְתֶּ֔םchilaltemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have profaned

I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.

Ezekiel 36:23

• הַֽמְחֻלָּל֙hamchulalthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: that has been] profaned
• חִלַּלְתֶּ֖םchilaltemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have profaned

So I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

Ezekiel 39:7

• אַחֵ֥לʾachelverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will let be profaned

In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.

Ezekiel 44:7

• לְחַלְּל֣וֹlechalelopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to profane it

His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.

Daniel 11:31

• וְחִלְּל֞וּvechileluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will profane

Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.

Hosea 8:10

• וַיָּחֵ֣לּוּvaiyacheluHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they have begun

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

Amos 2:7

• חַלֵּ֖לchalelverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to profane

On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

Jonah 3:4

• וַיָּ֤חֶלvaiyachelHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he began

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

Zephaniah 3:4

• חִלְּלוּ־chilelu-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they profane

“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’

Malachi 1:12

• מְחַלְּלִ֣יםmechalelimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: profaning

Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

Malachi 2:10

• לְחַלֵּ֖לlechalelpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to profane

Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

Malachi 2:11

• חִלֵּ֣לchilelverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has profaned