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Strong's #2256 - חֶבֶל
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- a cord, rope, territory, band, company
- a rope, cord
- a measuring-cord or line
- a measured portion, lot, part, region
- a band or company
- pain, sorrow, travail, pang
- pains of travail
- pains, pangs, sorrows
- union
- destruction
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2141) lbh (ההבל HhBL) AC: Bind CO: Rope AB: ?: To bind something by wrapping it around with a rope. [from: bh- as being enclose]
V) lbh (ההבל HhBL) - I. Bind:To be bound as with ropes. [Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Pledge:To be bound. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (35): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Pual, Piel) destroy, pledge, band, brought, corrupt, offend, spoil, travail, withhold, hurt - Strongs: H2254 (חָבַל), H2255 (חֲבַל)
Nm) lbh (ההבל HhBL) - I. Cord:Used for binding around. II. Region:As bound with borders. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (63): sorrow, cord, line, coast, portion, region, lot, rope, company, pang, band, country, destruction, pain, snare, tackling, hurt, damage - Strongs: H2256 (חֶבֶל), H2257 (חֲבָל)
cm) lfbh (ההבול HhBWL) - Pledge: As a binding. KJV (4): pledge - Strongs: H2258 (חֲבֹלָה)
df1) elfbh (ההבולה HhBWLH) - Crime: What causes one to become bound in ropes. [Aramaic only] KJV (1): hurt - Strongs: H2248 (חֲבוּלָה)
em) lbih (ההיבל HhYBL) - Mast: What the sail of a ship is attached to using ropes. KJV (1): mast - Strongs: H2260 (חִבֵּל)
gm) lbfh (ההובל HhWBL) - Sailor: One who uses ropes on a ship. KJV (5): pilot - Strongs: H2259 (חֹבֵל)
idf1) elfbht (תההבולה THhBWLH) - Council: As surrounding one with advice. KJV (6): counsel, advice - Strongs: H8458 (תַּחְבּוּלָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 cord, rope, by which men were lowered Joshua 2:15 (JE), Jeremiah 38:6,11,12,13, or stones dragged 2 Samuel 17:13; of tents Isaiah 33:20; tackling of ship Isaiah 33:23; for binding Ezekiel 27:24; Job 40:25; Esther 1:6; symbol of captivity or subjection 1 Kings 20:31,32; figurative of snare for wicked Job 18:10 ("" מַלְכֻּדְתּוֺ), set by wicked Psalm 140:6 ("" מַּה); Psalm 119:61 cords of wicked men have surrounded me; of wicked held בחבלי חַטָּאתוֺ Proverbs 5:22; ׳חהָשָּׁ֑וְא Isaiah 5:18 cords ( ropes) of wickedness ("" כַּעֲבוֺתהָעֲגָלָה); of cords of distress (עֹ֑נִי) Job 36:8 ("" וִקִּים); so חֶבְלֵי מָוֶת (probably) Psalm 116:3, חֶבְלֵי שׁאוֺל Psalm 18:6 = 2 Samuel 22:6 ("" מוֺקְשֵׁי מָוֶת); — for חֶבְלֵי מות Psalm 18:5 read מִשְׁבְּרֵי, see 2 Samuel 22:5 and "" נַחֲלֵי בְלִיַּעַל, De Che Bae; to draw בְּחַבְלֵי אָדָם Hosea 11:4 (i.e. humanely, kindly); of cord of life חֶבֶל הַכֶּסֶף Ecclesiastes 12:6.
2 measuring-cord, line מִדָּה׳ח Zechariah 2:5; so ׳ח alone 2 Samuel 8:2 (3t. in verse); Amos 7:17; Micah 2:5; Psalm 78:55; figurative (of favoured life) Psalm 16:5; in General of one's portion, fortune Job 21:17 according to ᵑ7 Thes Add. Ew Di and others, but < see חֵבֶל. Thence
3 measured portion, lot, part, region, נַחֲלָה׳ח inherited portion Deuteronomy 32:9; 1 Chronicles 16:18 = Psalm 105:11; also ׳ח alone Joshua 17:5,14; Joshua 19:9; Ezekiel 47:13 (חבלים; ᵑ9ᵑ7 read as dual, see Ew Sm Da and others; Co strike out on internal grounds); of particular regions אַרְגֹּב׳ח Deuteronomy 3:4,13,14; 1 Kings 4:13; אַכְזִיב׳ח Joshua 19:29 (si vera 1., see WMM Asien 194); הַיָּם׳ח Zephaniah 2:5; also Zephaniah 2:6, but ׳היתה ח here dubious; Sta proposes 2 feminine singular הָיִת, and strike out הים׳ח; without הים, Zephaniah 2:7.
4 band, company of prophets 1 Samuel 10:5,10. — II.חֶבֶל see below II. חָבַל.
חֵ֫בֶל noun masculine Isaiah 66:7 (but see Jeremiah 49:24) pain, pang; — ׳ח absolute Isaiah 66:7; elsewhere plural חֲבָלִים Isaiah 13:8 3t. + Job 21:17 see below; construct חֶבְלֵי Hosea 13:13; suffix חֲבָלֶיהָ Isaiah 26:17; חֶבְלֵיהֶם Job 39:3 (on suffix see Ges§ 135, 5, R 1); — pain, pang:
1 pains of travail:
a. object of תְּשַׁלַּחְנָה Job 39:3 meton. for off spring ("" יַלְדֵיהֶן; see Di; of goats and hinds).
b. simile of distress of exiles Isaiah 26:17; figurative of anguish of nations צִירִים וַחֲבָלִים יאֹחֵזוּן Isaiah 13:8 ("" כַּיּוֺלֵדָה יְחִילוּן), also Jeremiah 13:21; Jeremiah 22:23; Jeremiah 49:24; of crisis of redemption Hosea 13:13 ("" חֶבְלֵי יוֺלֵדָה), of birth of new Israel Isaiah 66:7.
2 of other than birth-pangs onlyחבלים Job 21:17; pains, pangs, sorrows (so ᵐ5ᵑ9 Thes, — otherwise Add. — Rob-Ges Hi Da and others; "" נֵר יִדְעָ֑ךְ, יָבאֹ אֵידָם ); > others, portion, fortune, see חֶבֶל.
חֹבְלִים noun [masculine] plural union (literally binders) name of Zechariah's second symbolic staff Zechariah 11:7 and with article Zechariah 11:14. see חָבַל 1
II. חֶ֫בֶל noun masculine destruction — חֶבֶל נִמְרָץ Micah 2:10; compare II.חָבַל
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חֶבֶל m. (once f. Zephaniah 2:6), with suff. חַבְלִי pl. חֲבָלִים const. חֶבְלֵי Psalms 18:5, 116:3, and חַבְלֵי Joshua 17:5
(1) a cord, a rope (Arab. حَبْلُ, Syr. ܚܰܒܠܳ Ethiop. ሐብል፡ To this answer Gr. κάμιλος, French [and English] cable, nor was there ground for the rejection of the Greek word as fictitious, as was done by some philologists, see Passow. Lex. i, 779). Joshua 2:15. Ecclesiastes 12:6, חֶבֶל הַכֶּסֶף “a cord made of silver threads.”
(2) especially a measuring line, Amos 7:17; 2 Samuel 8:2 hence
(a) a measured field, given to any one by lot, Joshua 17:14, 19:9, and thus inheritance, portion, possession. Psal. 16:6, חֲבָלִים נָֽפְלוּ־לִי בַּנְּעִימִים “a portion has been allotted to me in a pleasant region.” Deuteronomy 32:9, יַעֲקֹב חֶבֶל נַחֲלָתוֹ “Jacob (is) his possession.” Hence, in a general sense, a tract of land, a region, Deuteronomy 3:4, 13:14. חֶבֶל הַיָּם a maritime district, sea-coast, Zephaniah 2:5, Zephaniah 2:6.
(3) a gin, a noose, a snare, Psalms 140:6; Job 18:10. חֶבְלֵי מָוֶת שְׁאוֹל, “snares of death, of Hades” [if this word and the preceding are to be taken together, (and from the connection with the N. Test. it appears that these occurrences must at least belong to the former,) these expressions signify the pangs (or sorrows) of death, of Hades], Psalms 18:5, Psalms 18:6, 116:3.
(4) a band of men, a company, 1 Samuel 10:5, 10 1 Samuel 10:10(comp. Germ. Bande, Rotte [Engl. band]).
[“(5) destruction (compare Piel No. 2), Micah 2:10, well rendered by the Syr. and Vulg.”]