Flute
חָלִילStrong’s H2485chalil (cha-lil)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalil is the Hebrew word usually translated “flute”, “like flutes” and “flutes”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:”
Meaning
- Pipe, flute
How it's translated
- and flute 2
- like flutes 2
- with flutes 1
- with flute 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 1:40And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
- Isaiah 5:12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
- Isaiah 30:29Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 48:36Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
Hebrew dictionary
חָלִיל chalil · flute
pipe, flute
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flute” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLUTE, noun
[Latin flo, flatus, to blow, or Latin fluta, a lamprey, with the same number of holes.]
- A small wind instrument; a pipe with lateral holes or stops, played by blowing with the mouth, and by stopping and opening the holes with the fingers.
- A channel in a column or pillar; a perpendicular furrow or cavity, cut along the shaft of a column or pilaster; so called from its resemblance to a flute It is used chiefly in the Ionic order; sometimes in the Composite and Corinthian; rarely in the Doric and Tuscan.
- A long vessel or boat, with flat ribs or floor timbers, round behind, and swelled in the middle; a different orthography of float, flota.
All definitions and other forms of “flute”
FLUTE, verb intransitive
To play on a flute
FLUTE, verb transitive
To form flutes or channels in a column.
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.