Ezekiel 20:21:16Ezek.20.21.W16TAB
חִלֵּ֑לוּ
khilelu
“they profaned”
- Transliteration
- khi-le-LU
- Extended
- khih-leh-LUU
- IPA
- /ħil.leːˈluː/
Meaning by language
- English
- they profaned
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
khi-le-LU
- clause
a-SHER ya-a-SE o-TAM ha-a-DAM va-KHAI ba-HEM et-shab-be-tot-TAI khi-le-LU
- sentence
va-yam-RU-VI ha-ba-NIM be-khu-kot-TAI lo-ha-la-KHU ve-et-mish-pa-TAI lo-sham-RU la-a-SOT o-TAM a-SHER ya-a-SE o-TAM ha-a-DAM va-KHAI ba-HEM et-shab-be-tot-TAI khi-le-LU va-o-MAR lish-POKH kha-ma-TI a-LE-hem le-khal-LOT a-PI BAM bam-mid-BAR
Exegesis
The protasis et-shabbətotai {אֶת־שַׁבְּתוֹתַי | ʾet-šab-bə-ṯō-ṯai} ‘my Sabbaths’ with chilhelu {חִלְּלוּ | ḥil-lə-lû} ‘they profaned’ intensifies covenant violation.
Root and etymology
Rootchet–lamed–lamed
“to pollute, profane”
In context — Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against Me ; they did not walk in My statutes, and they did not keep My judgments to perform them—those which, if a person does, he will live by them ; they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My wrath upon them to bring My anger to an end in the wilderness.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:21:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Ezekiel 20:21, so the Hebrew word חִלֵּ֑לוּ (khilelu) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Ezek.20.21.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.21.W16.S1) and character.