To bore
חָלַלStrong’s H2490chalal (cha-lal)
Appears in 133 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalal is the Hebrew word usually translated “began”, “profane” and “it began”. It appears in 133 verses of the Old Testament.
“And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.”
Meaning
- To wound (fatally), bore through, pierce, bore(Qal) to pierce · (Pual) to be slain · (Poel) to wound, pierce · (Poal) to be wounded
- (Piel) to play the flute or pipe
- To profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin(Niphal) · (Piel) · (Pual) to be profaned (of name of God) · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to be begun
How it's translated
- he began 10
- they began 5
- and he began 4
- and they began 4
- you will profane 4
- it began 4
- you have profaned 4
- they will profane 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 31
- Leviticus 15
- 2 Chronicles 9
- Genesis 8
- Judges 8
- Isaiah 8
28 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 4:26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
- Genesis 6:1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
- Genesis 9:20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
- Genesis 10:8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
- Genesis 11:6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Genesis 41:54And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
All 133 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חָלַל chalal · to bore
1) to wound (fatally), bore through, pierce, bore 1a) (Qal) to pierce 1b) (Pual) to be slain 1c) (Poel) to wound, pierce 1d) (Poal) to be wounded
חָלַל chalal · to play flute
(Piel) to play the flute or pipe
חָלַל chalal · to profane/begin
: begin 1) to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself 1a1a) ritually 1a1b) sexually 1a2) to be polluted, be defiled 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to profane, make common, defile, pollute 1b2) to violate the honour of, dishonour 1b3) to violate (a covenant) 1b4) to treat as common 1c) (Pual) to be profaned (of name of God) 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to let be profaned 1d2) to begin 1e) (Hophal) to be begun
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bore” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BORE, verb transitive
[Latin foro and perforo, to bore to perforate; Gr. to pierce or transfix; also, to pass over, in which sense it coincides with ferry; Latin veru, from thrusting or piercing, coincide in elements with this root.
- To perforate or penetrate a solid body and make a round hole by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument.
- To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm.
- To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd.
All definitions and other forms of “bore”
BORE, verb intransitive
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well or is hard to bore
- To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well.
- To push forward toward a certain point.
- With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground.
- In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums, through which they pass.
BORE, noun
The hole made by boring. Hence, the cavity or hollow of a gun, cannon, pistol or other fire-arm; the caliber; whether formed by boring or not.
- Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger, gimlet or wimble.
BORE, noun
A tide, swelling above another tide.
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.