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Strong's H2491 חָלָל (chalal)

Chalal means “kill” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2491 — ioannes (“John”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2491
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 85
Books 21

Strong's H2491 Quick Answer

Strong's H2491 חָלָל (chalal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chalal (khaw-lawl') adj. 1. pierced (especially to death) 2. (figuratively) polluted It has 85 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include slain, slew, profane, kill, and killed. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chalal (khaw-lawl') adj. 1. pierced (especially to death) 2. (figuratively) polluted
Usage
85 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
slain, slew, profane, kill, and killed

Meaning and Definition

chalal (khaw-lawl') adj. 1. pierced (especially to death) 2. (figuratively) polluted [from H2490] KJV: kill, profane, slain (man), X slew, (deadly) wounded. Root(s): H2490

Original Word
חָלָל
Transliteration
chalal
Derivation
Root: חלל First root strongs: 2490
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2491. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

slain: killed

Usage: : killed 1) slain, fatally wounded, pierced 1a) pierced, fatally wounded 1b) slain Also means: cha.lal (חָלָל ": wounded" H2491H)

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How Strong's H2491 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chalal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

slain Genesis 34:27 65× slew Judges 16:24 profane Leviticus 21:7 kill Judges 20:31 deaths Ezekiel 28:8 killed Numbers 31:19 man Ezekiel 30:24

How Strong's H2491 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 85 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2491 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2491 in the Old Testament

85 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 34:27 KJV

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Leviticus 21:7 KJV

They 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 21:14 KJV

A 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.

Usage Excerpts

First 85 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2491.

Genesis 34:27 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Leviticus 21:7 Old Testament, KJV
They 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 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
A 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 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 19:18 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 23:24 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, 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.
Numbers 31:8 Old Testament, KJV
And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
Numbers 31:19 Old Testament, KJV
And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
Deuteronomy 21:1 Old Testament, KJV
If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
Deuteronomy 21:2 Old Testament, KJV
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
Deuteronomy 21:3 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
Deuteronomy 21:6 Old Testament, KJV
And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
Deuteronomy 32:42 Old Testament, KJV
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
Joshua 11:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
Joshua 13:22 Old Testament, KJV
Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
Judges 9:40 Old Testament, KJV
And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.
Judges 16:24 Old Testament, KJV
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
Judges 20:31 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges 20:39 Old Testament, KJV
And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
1 Samuel 17:52 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
1 Samuel 31:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
1 Samuel 31:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
2 Samuel 1:19 Old Testament, KJV
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
2 Samuel 1:22 Old Testament, KJV
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
2 Samuel 1:25 Old Testament, KJV
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
2 Samuel 23:8 Old Testament, KJV
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
2 Samuel 23:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
1 Kings 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
1 Chronicles 5:22 Old Testament, KJV
For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
1 Chronicles 10:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 11:11 Old Testament, KJV
And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
1 Chronicles 11:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
2 Chronicles 13:17 Old Testament, KJV
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Job 24:12 Old Testament, KJV
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Job 39:30 Old Testament, KJV
Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.
Psalms 69:26 Old Testament, KJV
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Psalms 88:5 Old Testament, KJV
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalms 89:10 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
Proverbs 7:26 Old Testament, KJV
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Isaiah 22:2 Old Testament, KJV
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
Isaiah 34:3 Old Testament, KJV
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Isaiah 66:16 Old Testament, KJV
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
Jeremiah 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
Jeremiah 25:33 Old Testament, KJV
And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Jeremiah 41:9 Old Testament, KJV
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
Jeremiah 51:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
Jeremiah 51:47 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Jeremiah 51:49 Old Testament, KJV
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
Jeremiah 51:52 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
Lamentations 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Lamentations 4:9 Old Testament, KJV
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Ezekiel 6:4 Old Testament, KJV
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Ezekiel 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 6:13 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Ezekiel 9:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
Ezekiel 11:6 Old Testament, KJV
Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Ezekiel 11:7 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
Ezekiel 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
Ezekiel 21:25 Old Testament, KJV
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
Ezekiel 21:29 Old Testament, KJV
Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
Ezekiel 26:15 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
Ezekiel 28:8 Old Testament, KJV
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel 28:23 Old Testament, KJV
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 30:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
Ezekiel 30:11 Old Testament, KJV
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Ezekiel 30:24 Old Testament, KJV
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Ezekiel 31:17 Old Testament, KJV
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
Ezekiel 31:18 Old Testament, KJV
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 32:20 Old Testament, KJV
They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
Ezekiel 32:21 Old Testament, KJV
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Ezekiel 32:22 Old Testament, KJV
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
Ezekiel 32:23 Old Testament, KJV
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:24 Old Testament, KJV
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:25 Old Testament, KJV
They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
Ezekiel 32:28 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
Ezekiel 32:29 Old Testament, KJV
There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:30 Old Testament, KJV
There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:31 Old Testament, KJV
Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 32:32 Old Testament, KJV
For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 35:8 Old Testament, KJV
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
Daniel 11:26 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
Nahum 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
Zephaniah 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2491, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 5 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 8 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 29 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2491 FAQ

What does chalal (חָלָל) mean?

Chalal (Strong's H2491) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "kill". chalal (khaw-lawl') adj. 1. pierced (especially to death) 2. (figuratively) polluted

How many times is chalal (חָלָל) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 85 linked usages for Strong's H2491 across 21 books.

Where can I study chalal (חָלָל) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2491 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chalal (חָלָל)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as slain, slew, profane, kill, killed, and deaths. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.