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title: חֹל — profaneness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֹל (2455), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: profaneness. BDB 1906: profaneness, commonness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֹל

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«חֹל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **profaneness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 2455 · **BDB:** חֹל²

### Glosses

a.profane.thing (3); of.profaneness (2); \[will.be\].a.profane.area (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

profaneness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2455/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

profaneness, commonness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2455/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] profaneness, commonness;—לֶחֶם חֹל 1 S 21:5, דֶּרֶךְ חֹל v 6; in concrete sense, opp. קֹדֶשׁ Lv 10:10 (P), Ez 22:26; 42:20; 44:23; 48:15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֹל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2455/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 44:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.23/)

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וְאֶת־עַמִּ֣י יוֹר֔וּ בֵּ֥ין קֹ֖דֶשׁ לְחֹ֑ל וּבֵין־טָמֵ֥א לְטָה֖וֹר יוֹדִעֻֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) people my they.will.instruct between a.holy.thing and a.profane.thing and between an.unclean.\[thing\] and a.clean.\[thing\] they will.make.known.to.them

*JPS 1917:* And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

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[Leviticus 10:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.10.10/)

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וּֽלֲהַבְדִּ֔יל בֵּ֥ין הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ וּבֵ֣ין הַחֹ֑ל וּבֵ֥ין הַטָּמֵ֖א וּבֵ֥ין הַטָּהֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and to separate between the.holy thing and between the.profane thing and between the.unclean \[thing\] and between the.clean \[thing\]

*JPS 1917:* And that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

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