Words

חָלַל H2490

Home gloss

begin (hiphil); be begun (hophal); profane (piel, niphal)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

begin / profane

Note

Split by stem (20). See the note at 4:26

Rulings

20

Occurrences (5)

Genesis 4

• 4:26 And to Seth, to him too, there was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. Then it was begun to call on the name of .

Genesis 6

• 6:1 And it was, when the human began to be many on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 9

• 9:20 And Noah began, a man of the ground, and planted a vineyard.

Genesis 10

• 10:8 And Cush bore Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the land.

Genesis 11

• 11:6 And said, "Look, one people and one lip for all of them, and this they have begun to do; and now nothing will be fenced off from them that they scheme to do.