1. הָלַל
be boastful, praise
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַיְהַֽלְל֥וּ
halal · vb
be boastful, praise
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 165 · 5.38/10k
Senses
2. הָלַל
shine
3. הָלַל
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
Attestations
- וַ/יְהַֽלְל֥וּ Genesis 12:15 (BHS)
- וַֽ/יְהַלְל֖וּ Judges 16:24 (BHS)
- וַ/יִּתְהֹלֵ֖ל 1 Samuel 21:14 (BHS)
- לְ/הַלֵּ֣ל 2 Samuel 14:25 (BHS)
- מְהֻלָּ֖ל 2 Samuel 22:4 (BHS)
- יִתְהַלֵּ֥ל 1 Kings 20:11 (BHS)
6 of 165 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.