חֶבֶלchebel
חֶ֫בֶל: cord, territory, band
Pronunciation: kheh'-bel · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2256
Meanings
1. cord, rope (Joshua 2:15; Jeremiah 38:6; Jeremiah 38:11)
2. measuring-cord, line (Zechariah 2:5; 2 Samuel 8:2; Amos 7:17)
3. measured portion, lot, part, region (Deuteronomy 32:9; 1 Chronicles 16:18; Psalms 105:11)
4. band, company (1 Samuel 10:5; 1 Samuel 10:10)
חֵ֫בֶל: pain, pang
1. pains of travail
a. off spring (Job 39:3)
2. pains, pangs, sorrows, of other than birth-pangs only חבלים (Job 21:17)
חֹבְלִים: union, (literally binders) name of Zechariah's second symbolic staff (Zechariah 11:7; Zechariah 11:14)
חֶ֫בֶל: destruction, compare II. חָבַל Pi`el above (Micah 2:10)
Same root
- חָבַלchâbal · H2254to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)
- תַּחְבֻּלָהtachbulâh · H8458(only in plural) properly, steerage (as a management of ropes), i.e. (figuratively) guidance or (by implication) a plan
Where it appears
Appears 62 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 3:4 We conquered all sixty of his towns—the entire Argob region in his kingdom of Bashan. Not a single town escaped our conquest.
- Deuteronomy 3:13 Then I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan—Og’s former kingdom—to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (This entire Argob region of Bashan used to be known as the land of the Rephaites.
- Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh, conquered the whole Argob region in Bashan, all the way to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. Jair renamed this region after himself, calling it the Towns of Jair, as it is still known today.)
- Deuteronomy 32:9 “For the people of Israel belong to the Lord; Jacob is his special possession.
- Joshua 2:15 Then, since Rahab’s house was built into the town wall, she let them down by a rope through the window.
- Joshua 17:5 As a result, Manasseh’s total allocation came to ten parcels of land, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan across the Jordan River,
See every passage
- Deuteronomy 3:4, 3:13, 3:14, 32:9
- Joshua 2:15, 17:5, 17:14, 19:9, 19:29
- 1 Samuel 10:5, 10:10
- 2 Samuel 8:2, 17:13, 22:6
- 1 Kings 4:13, 20:31, 20:32
- 1 Chronicles 16:18
- Esther 1:6
- Job 18:10, 21:17, 36:8, 39:3, 41:1
- Psalms 16:6, 18:4, 18:5, 78:55, 105:11, 116:3, 119:61, 140:5
- Proverbs 5:22
- Ecclesiastes 12:6
- Isaiah 5:18, 13:8, 26:17, 33:20, 33:23, 66:7
- Jeremiah 13:21, 22:23, 38:6, 38:11, 38:12, 38:13, 49:24
- Ezekiel 27:24, 47:13
- Hosea 11:4, 13:13
- Amos 7:17
- Micah 2:5, 2:10
- Zephaniah 2:5, 2:6, 2:7
- Zechariah 2:1, 11:7, 11:14
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).