חֹל
chol · common
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2455 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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chol (חֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “common”.
For ordinary use: what is not set apart for God. It does not mean "bad".
How to say it
chol
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
- What is not set apart for God.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- common ×6
- was an ordinary ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 10:10
and to separate the holy from the common, and the unclean from the clean,
- 1 Samuel 21:4
The priest answered David and said, “There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread, if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.”
- 1 Samuel 21:5
David answered the priest and said to him, “Surely women have been kept from us as yesterday and the day before when I set out, and the things of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more today will they be holy in their things!”
- Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my instruction and have profaned my holy things; between the holy and the common they have not distinguished, and between the unclean and the clean they have not taught; and from my Sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, and I am profaned in their midst.
- Ezekiel 42:20
On the four sides he measured it; it had a wall all around, the length, five hundred, and the width, five hundred, to separate between the holy and the common.
- Ezekiel 44:23
And my people they shall teach the difference between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they shall make them know.
- Ezekiel 48:15
And the five thousand that remain in width in front of the twenty-five thousand, it is common land for the city, for dwelling and for pastureland; and the city shall be in its midst.