חֹל
chôl · H2455 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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common, profane
Something that is accessible to ordinary people without preceding ritual
ExamplesLeviticus 10:10 and to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,
1 Samuel 21:4 The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread, if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
1 Samuel 21:5 David answered the priest and said to him, “Be assured, women have been denied to us as previously when I left and the bodies of the young men were consecrated, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then will their bodies be consecrated today?”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 3
- בֵּיןbetween, among 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
- לֶחֶםbread, food 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- קֹדֶשׁ qôdesh · H6944 · holiness, holy
- The direct lexical opposite of חֹל, denoting that which is holy or set apart, in contrast to the common or profane.
In the other Testament 1 word
- βέβηλος bébēlos · G952 · worldly, godless
- Greek βέβηλος (bébēlos, G952) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew חֹל (chôl, H2455), both denoting the realm outside sacred boundaries—what is common, profane, or accessible to ordinary use as opposed to what is holy or consecrated.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Common002001001015
- The adjective marks something ordinary or common as opposed to holy, as the priests are charged to teach Israel the difference between the holy and the "common" (Leviticus 10:10; Ezekiel 42:20).
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2455. chol חֹל noun [masculine] profaneness, commonness; — חֹל לֶחֶם 1Sa 21:5, חֹל…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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