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title: חָלִיל — flute · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָלִיל (2485), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: flute. BDB 1906: n.m. flute, pipe. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָלִיל

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«חָלִיל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flute** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 2485 · **BDB:** חָלִיל

### Glosses

flute (3); flutes (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flute [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2485/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. flute, pipe [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2485/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. flute, pipe, ח׳ 1 S 10:5 Is 5:12; 30:29; pl. חֲלִלִים 1 K 1:40 Je 48:36(×2).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָלִיל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2485/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 1:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.40/)

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וַיַּעֲל֤וּ כָל־הָעָם֙ אַֽחֲרָ֔יו וְהָעָם֙ מְחַלְּלִ֣ים בַּחֲלִלִ֔ים וּשְׂמֵחִ֖ים שִׂמְחָ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה וַתִּבָּקַ֥ע הָאָ֖רֶץ בְּקוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.up all the people after him and the people \[were\].playing.the.flute with flutes and \[they.were\].joyful joy great and it.was.split.open the earth by sound their

*JPS 1917:* And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

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[Isaiah 5:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.12/)

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וְהָיָ֨ה כִנּ֜וֹר וָנֶ֗בֶל תֹּ֧ף וְחָלִ֛יל וָיַ֖יִן מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֑ם וְאֵ֨ת פֹּ֤עַל יְהוָה֙ לֹ֣א יַבִּ֔יטוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָדָ֖יו לֹ֥א רָאֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be harp and lyre tambourine and flute and wine feast their and (et) the.deed\[s\] of.Yahweh not they.pay.attention.to and the.work his.hands his not they.see

*JPS 1917:* And the harp and the psaltery, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of His hands.

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