Slain
חָלָלStrong’s H2491chalal (cha-lal)
Appears in 85 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalal is the Hebrew word usually translated “slain”, “slain of” and “fatally wounded”. It appears in 85 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.”
Meaning
- Slain, fatally wounded, piercedpierced, fatally wounded · slain
- (CLBL) profaneddefiled, profaned (by divorce)
How it's translated
- slain 37
- slain of 22
- the slain 9
- fatally wounded 7
- slain your 4
- slain their 3
- and a profaned 2
- slain its 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 29
- Jeremiah 8
- Numbers 5
- Deuteronomy 5
- 2 Samuel 5
- 1 Chronicles 5
21 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 34:27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
- Leviticus 21:7They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
- Leviticus 21:14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
- Numbers 19:16And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
- Numbers 19:18And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
- Numbers 23:24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
All 85 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חָלָל chalal · slain
: killed 1) slain, fatally wounded, pierced 1a) pierced, fatally wounded 1b) slain Also means: cha.lal (חָלָל ": wounded" H2491H)
חָלָל chalal · profaned
adj 1) (CLBL) profaned 1a) defiled, profaned (by divorce)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLAIN, participle passive
of slay; so written for slayen. Killed.
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.