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Strong H19845 sensesהָלַל

to boast: praise · to boast: boast · to be foolish · to boast: rave madly · to shine

Transliteration
hâlal
Pronunciation
haw-lal'

The 5 senses of Strong H1984

The lexicon tells 5 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H1984 appears in 140 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. to boast: praiseH1984B: praise100 verses · 14 books
  2. to boast: boastH1984H: boast20 verses · 6 books
  3. to be foolishH1984Cbe boastful9 verses · 5 books
  4. to boast: rave madlyH1984I: rave_madly5 verses · 4 books
  5. to shineH1984A(Qal) to shine (fig. of God's favour)4 verses · Job, Isaiah

General definition

A primitive root; to be clear (originally of {sound} but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a show; 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.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • praise101
  • glory10
  • boast6
  • mad4
  • be3
  • boasteth2
  • commend2
  • fool2
  • foolish2
  • shin2
  • sing2
  • rage2

First verses

  1. Genesis 12:15
    The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
  2. Judges 16:24
    And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
  3. 1 Samuel 21:13
    And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
  4. 2 Samuel 14:25
    But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
  5. 2 Samuel 22:4
    I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
  6. 1 Kings 20:11
    And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
  7. 1 Chronicles 16:4
    And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, and to record, and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel:
  8. 1 Chronicles 16:10
    Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
  9. 1 Chronicles 16:25
    For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
  10. 1 Chronicles 16:36
    Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the Lord.
  11. 1 Chronicles 23:5
    Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
  12. 1 Chronicles 23:30
    And to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise at even;
  13. 1 Chronicles 25:3
    Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the Lord.
  14. 1 Chronicles 29:13
    Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
  15. 2 Chronicles 5:13
    It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
  16. 2 Chronicles 7:6
    And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the Lord, which David the king had made to praise the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
  17. 2 Chronicles 8:14
    And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
  18. 2 Chronicles 20:19
    And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
  19. 2 Chronicles 20:21
    And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth for ever.
  20. 2 Chronicles 23:12
    Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord: