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This dictionary offers definitions and explanations for every word used in the Hebrew Old Testament. Each entry is identified by a number from Strong's Dictionary of the Hebrew Bible, so that you can make great use of the information that is given about each word, even if they have no working knowledge of the Hebrew language. The Complete Word Study Dictionary: Old Testament is a Bible study tool...

common. This word comes from the verb ḥālal (2490), meaning to pollute or to profane and is always used in opposition to qōḏeš (6944), meaning sacred or set apart. The priests were to make a distinction between the sacred and the common (Lev. 10:10). David discussed with the priest the difference between the common bread and the set–apart bread (1 Sam. 21:4[5], 5[6]). The priests would teach the difference between the sacred and the common (Ezek. 44:23)—a distinction the priests of Ezekiel’s