I am somewhat confused by the discussion of chalal. It appears that some argue there are two roots with similar but not identical spelling. One meaning to profane and the other having a meaning which includes wound, pain, pierce, etc. My resources are limited so I looked this up in a couple of modern Hebrew/English dictionaries and some of the more classical lexicons.
The modern dictionaries treated this word as one entry, presumably they only saw one root which included both the ideas of profane and wounding or killing.
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