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Hebrew - English Dictionary

H2490 - Began

Strong's No.:H2490

Hebrew:חָלַל

Transliteration:châlal

Phonetic:khaw-lal'

Word Origin:A primitive root (compare H2470)

Bible Usage:begin (X men {began}) {defile} X-(idiom) {break} {defile} X-(idiom) eat (as common {things}) X-(idiom) {first} X-(idiom) gather the grape {thereof} X-(idiom) take {inheritance} {pipe} player on {instruments} {pollute} (cast as) profane ({self}) {prostitute} slay ({slain}) {sorrow} {stain} wound.

Part of Speech:Verb

Strongs
Definition:

properly to {bore} that {is} (by implication) to {wound} to dissolve; figuratively to profane (a {person} place or {thing}) to break (one´ s {word}) to begin (as if by an opening-wedge); denominatively (from H2485) to play (the flute)


Brown Driver
Biggs Definition:

1. to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin

a. (Niphal)

1. to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself 1a

b. ritually 1a

c. sexually

1. to be polluted, be defiled

d. (Piel)

1. to profane, make common, defile, pollute

2. to violate the honour of, dishonour

3. to violate (a covenant)

4. to treat as common

e. (Pual) to profane (name of God)

f. (Hiphil)

1. to let be profaned

2. to begin

g. (Hophal) to be begun

2. to wound (fatally), bore through, pierce, bore

a. (Qal) to pierce

b. (Pual) to be slain

c. (Poel) to wound, pierce

d. (Poal) to be wounded

3. (Piel) to play the flute or pipe


Bible References:
Began

Translation
Occurrences:
began ( 33 )
begin ( 12 )
begun ( 6 )
break ( 3 )
broken ( 1 )
defile ( 2 )
defiled ( 5 )
defiledst ( 1 )
defileth ( 1 )
eat ( 1 )
eaten ( 1 )
first ( 1 )
formed ( 1 )
grapes ( 1 )
herself ( 1 )
himself ( 1 )
inheritance ( 1 )
instruments ( 1 )
piped ( 1 )
pollute ( 8 )
polluted ( 13 )
profane ( 16 )
profaned ( 15 )
profaneth ( 1 )
profaning ( 2 )
prostitute ( 1 )
slain ( 1 )
slayeth ( 1 )
sorrow ( 1 )
stain ( 1 )
things ( 1 )
wounded ( 3 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.