חכליל

Uncertain, only occuring once in the Tanakh in the passage below.

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ħakˈliːl/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /χaχˈlil/

חַכְלִיל • (khakhlíl) (feminine חַכְלִילָה, masculine plural חַכְלִילִים, feminine plural חַכְלִילוֹת) [pattern: קַטְלִיל]

1. (Biblical Hebrew) dull red, bloodshot (of drunk eyes)
   • Tanach, Genesis 49:12:

     חַכְלִילִי עֵינַיִם מִיָּיִן וּלְבֶן־שִׁנַּיִם מֵחָלָב׃

     His eyes bloodshot from wine, his teeth white from milk.

The suffix ־ִי (-í) is sometimes used to emphasize the construct state and can also be found in the preceding verse: אֹסְרִי לַגֶּפֶן עִירֹה וְלַשֹּׂרֵקָה בְּנִי אֲתֹנוֹ.

• חַכְלִילוּת (khakhlilút, “redness”)
• חַכְלִילִית (khakhlilít, “redstart”)
• חִכְלֵל (khikhlél, “to redden”)

• H2447 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “חַכְלִיל”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 216b