Common
חֹלStrong’s H2455chol
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chol is the Hebrew word usually translated “profane thing”, “profaneness” and “profane area”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;”
Meaning
- Profaneness, commonness, unholy, profane, common, sand
How it's translated
- and a profane thing 3
- profaneness 2
- the profane thing 1
- a profane area 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- 1 Samuel 2
- Leviticus 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 21:4And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
- 1 Samuel 21:5And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
- Ezekiel 22:26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
- Ezekiel 42:20He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
- Ezekiel 44:23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
- Ezekiel 48:15And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹל chol · common
profaneness, commonness, unholy, profane, common, sand
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “common” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMMON, adjective
- Belonging equally to more than one, or to many indefinitely; as, life and sense are common to man and beast; the common privileges of citizens; the common wants of men.
- Belonging to the public; having no separate owner.
- General; serving for the use of all; as the common prayer.
- Universal; belonging to all; as, the earth is said to be the common mother of mankind.
All definitions and other forms of “common”
- Public; general; frequent; as common report.
- Usual; ordinary; as the common operations of nature; the common forms of conveyance; the common rules of civility.
- Of no rank or superior excellence; ordinary.
- Prostitute; lewd; as a common woman.
- In grammar, such verbs as signify both action and passion, are called common; as aspernor, I despise or am despised; also, such nouns as are both masculine and feminine, as parens.
- A common bud, in botany, is one that contains both leaves and flowers; a common peduncle, one that bears several flowers; a common perianth, one that incloses several distinct fructification; a common receptacle, one that connects several distinct fructification.
COMMON, noun
- A tract of ground, the use of which is not appropriated to an individual, but belongs to the public or to a number.
- In law, an open ground, or that soil the use of which belongs equally to the inhabitants of a town or of a lordship, or to a certain number of proprietors; or the profit which a man has in the land of another; or a right which a person has to pasture has cattle on land of another, or to dig turf, or catch fish, or cut wood, or the like; called common of pasture, of turbary, of piscary, and of estovers.
COMMON, verb intransitive
- To have a joint right with others in common ground.
- To board together; to eat at a table in common
COMMON, adverb
Commonly.
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.