חָבַשׁchâbash

bind, bind on, bind up

Pronunciation: khaw-bash' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2280

Meanings

Qal: active, passive (Exodus 29:9; Ezekiel 34:4; Job 34:17)

1. bind, bind on

a. passive, and I bound (Exodus 29:9; Leviticus 8:13; Ezekiel 24:17)

b. twined, twisted, cords twisted and strong (Ezekiel 27:24)

d. restrain, control, bändigen (Job 34:17)

2. bind up, namely a wound, usually in figure, of comforting the distressed, etc. (Hosea 6:1; Isaiah 61:1; Ezekiel 34:4)

Pi`el: bind up (Job 28:11; Psalms 147:3)

Pu`al: be bound up (Ezekiel 30:21; Isaiah 1:6)

Where it appears

Appears 33 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 22:3 The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about.
  • Exodus 29:9 Wrap the sashes around the waists of Aaron and his sons, and put their special head coverings on them. Then the right to the priesthood will be theirs by law forever. In this way, you will ordain Aaron and his sons.
  • Leviticus 8:13 Next Moses presented Aaron’s sons. He clothed them in their tunics, tied their sashes around them, and put their special head coverings on them, just as the Lord had commanded him.
  • Numbers 22:21 So the next morning Balaam got up, saddled his donkey, and started off with the Moabite officials.
  • Judges 19:10 But this time the man was determined to leave. So he took his two saddled donkeys and his concubine and headed in the direction of Jebus (that is, Jerusalem).
  • 2 Samuel 16:1 When David had gone a little beyond the summit of the Mount of Olives, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, was waiting there for him. He had two donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a wineskin full of wine.
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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).