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Dull

חַכְלִילִיStrong’s H2447

chakhlil (chakh-lil)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Chakhlil is the Hebrew word usually translated “dark of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.”
Genesis 49:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. Dull
  2. (CLBL) dark-flashing, brilliant
How it's translated
  • dark of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    חַכְלִילִי chakhlil · dull

    1) dull 2) (CLBL) dark-flashing, brilliant

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “dull” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    DULL, adjective

    [G.]

    1. Stupid; doltish; blockish; slow of understanding; as a lad of dull genius.
    2. Heavy; sluggish; without life or spirit; as a surfeit leaves a man very dull
    3. Slow of motion; sluggish; as a dull stream.
    4. Slow of hearing or seeing; as dull of hearing; dull of seeing.
    All definitions and other forms of “dull”
    1. Slow to learn or comprehend; unready; awkward; as a dull scholar.
    2. Sleepy; drowsy.
    3. Sad; melancholy.
    4. Gross; cloggy; insensible; as the dull earth.
    5. Not pleasing or delightful; not exhilarating; cheerless; as, to make dictionaries is dull work.
    6. Not bright or clear; clouded; tarnished; as, the mirror is dull
    7. Not bright; not briskly burning; as a dull fire.
    8. Blunt; obtuse; having a thick edge; as a dull knife or ax.
    9. Cloudy; overcast; not clear; not enlivening; as dull weather.
    10. With seamen, being without wind; as, a ship has a dull time.
    11. Not lively or animated; as a dull eye.

    DULL, verb transitive

    1. To make dull; to stupify; as, to dull the senses.
    2. To blunt; as, to dull a sword or an ax.
    3. To make sad or melancholy.
    4. To hebetate; to make insensible or slow to perceive; as, to dull the ears; to dull the wits.
    5. To damp; to render lifeless; as, to dull the attention.
    6. To make heavy or slow of motion; as, to dull industry.
    7. To sully; to tarnish or cloud; as, the breath dulls a mirror.

    DULL, verb intransitive

    To become dull or blunt; to become stupid.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.