חָלִיל
chalil · flute
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2485 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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chalil (חָלִיל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flute”.
A wind instrument made of a tube with holes.
How to say it
cha·lil
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A wind instrument played by blowing.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- flute ×3
- like flutes ×2
- flutes ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 10:5
After that you will come to Gibeah of Elohim, where are the garrisons of the Philistines; and it will happen, as you come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them harp and tambourine and flute and lyre, and they will be prophesying.
- 1 Kings 1:40
And all the people went up after him, and the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth split with their sound.
- Isaiah 5:12
And there are lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts; but the deeds of YHWH they do not regard, and the work of his hands they do not see.
- Isaiah 30:29
The song will be yours as in the night when a feast is sanctified, and gladness of heart as one who goes with the flute to come into the mountain of YHWH, to the Rock of Israel.
- Jeremiah 48:36
Therefore my heart moans for Moab like flutes, and my heart for the men of Kir-heres moans like flutes; therefore the surplus he had made has perished.
And 1 more times.