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STRONG'S HEBREW DICTIONARY

H1984

הָלַל
You came here from“Praise”

Strong numbering source: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).

Original wordהָלַל
Transliterationhâlal
Pronunciation guidehaw-lal'

QUICK LEXICAL ENTRY

Definition

a primitive root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make ashow, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify; (make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(-ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine.

BROWN–DRIVER–BRIGGS

Historical Hebrew lexicon

BDB supplies fuller lexical senses, grammatical notes, cognate material, and historical citations. A listed sense is not automatically the meaning of this word in every verse; context and grammar determine usage.

Help with BDB terminology

BDB was written for readers comfortable with Hebrew grammar. These notes explain technical terms found in this entry without changing the BDB text.

Qal: the most basic Hebrew verbal stem (binyan), often expressing a simple active action, though individual verbs must be interpreted in context.

Mapped BDB entry e.bo.aa

[הָלַל] vb. shine
Qal when it, viz. his lamp, shone upon my head, fig. of God’s favour.
Hiph. flash forth light

Mapped BDB entry e.bp.aa

[הָלַל] vb. be boastful, Pi. praise
Qal be boastful
Pi.
praise man or woman
usually praise י׳
appar. boast, make one’s boast
Pu. be praised
Hithpa. glory, boast, make one’s boast
Po‛el make into a fool, make a fool of
Po‛al of laughter I said, It is mad (folly)
Hithpo. act madly, or like a madman

Source: Brown–Driver–Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping supplied by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); underlying BDB text is public domain.

LEXICAL FAMILY

Root & related forms

These relationships are taken from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon lexical index. They are historical/lexical relationships encoded in that source; they do not mean that related words share the same sense in every context.

Indexed rootהָלַלhālalshine
Indexed rootהָלַלhālalbe boastful
Indexed rootהָלַלhālalbe boastful

Relationship source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, LexicalIndex.xml (CC BY 4.0).

CONCORDANCE

Where this word appears

163 verified lexical occurrences in the reviewed Old Testament alignment. Search or filter the concordance below.

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Source note

Strong numbering: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).

BDB: Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project. Open Scriptures data files are CC BY 4.0; the underlying BDB text is public domain.

Lexical relationships: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project LexicalIndex.xml (CC BY 4.0). Root/derivative relationships are displayed only when explicitly encoded in that source; The Bible Directory does not infer etymology from spelling.

Method: KJV wording is displayed as the site translation. Public Hebrew links use the reviewed CrossWire KJV source-span alignment; Hebrew surface forms and morphology come from STEP Bible TAHOT. Translation alignment, lexical identity, and morphology are stored as separate data layers. Ambiguous alignments remain plain text rather than being guessed.

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