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STRONGS NUMBER H2256
Transliteration: chebel
Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-bel)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: cord, territory, band
Meaning: a rope, a measuring line, a district, inheritance, a noose, a company, a throe, ruin
Word Summary
chebel: cord, territory, band
Original Word: חֶבֶלTransliteration: chebel
Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-bel)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: cord, territory, band
Meaning: a rope, a measuring line, a district, inheritance, a noose, a company, a throe, ruin
Strong's Concordance
band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, Or chebel {khay'-bel}; from chabal; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin -- band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
see HEBREW chabal
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2256. chebel
I. חֶ֫בֶל noun masculineJoshua 2:14 feminine Zephaniah 2:6 (but see below) cord, territory, band; ׳ח absolute Joshua 2:15 +; construct Deuteronomy 3:4 +, חֵ֫בֶל Joshua 19:29; suffix חַבְלוֺ Job 18:10; plural חֲבָלִים 2 Samuel 8:2 10t. + Ezekiel 47:13; Job 21:7 see below; construct חַבְלֵי Joshua 17:5 5t.; חֶבְלֵי Psalm 116:3 2t. + 18:5 (read משׁברי see below); suffix הֲבָלָ֑יִךְ Isaiah 33:23; חֲבָלָיו 33:20; —
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 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); 119:61 cords of wicked men have surrounded me; of wicked held חַטָּאתוֺ בחבלי Proverbs 5:22; הָשָּׁ֑וְא ׳ח Isaiah 5:18 cords (ropes) of wickedness ("" הָעֲגָלָה כַּעֲבוֺת); of cords of distress (עֹ֑נִי) Job 36:8 ("" וִקִּים); so מָוֶת חֶבְלֵי (probably) Psalm 116:3, שׁאוֺל חֶבְלֵי 18:6 = 2 Samuel 22:6 ("" מָוֶת מוֺקְשֵׁי); — for מות חֶבְלֵי Psalm 18:5 read מִשְׁבְּרֵי, see 2 Samuel 22:5 and "" בְלִיַּעַל נַחֲלֵי, De Che Bae; to draw אָדָם בְּחַבְלֵי Hosea 11:4 (i.e. humanely, kindly); of cord of life הַכֶּסֶף חֶבֶל Ecclesiastes 12:6.
2 measuring-cord, line ׳ח מִדָּה Zechariah 2:5; so ׳ח alone 2 Samuel 8:2 (3 t. in verse); Amos 7:17; Micah 2:5; Psalm 78:55; figurative (of favoured life) 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, ׳ח נַחֲלָה inherited portion Deuteronomy 32:9; 1 Chronicles 16:18 = Psalm 105:11; also ׳ח alone Joshua 17:5, 14; 19:9; Ezekiel 47:13 (חבלים; ᵑ7 ᵑ9 read as dual, see Ew Sm Da and others; Co strike out on internal grounds); of particular regions ׳ח אַרְגֹּב Deuteronomy 3:4, 13, 14; 1 Kings 4:13; ׳ח אַכְזִיב Joshua 19:29 (si vera 1., see WMMAsien 194); ׳ח הַיָּם Zephaniah 2:5; also 2:6, but ח ׳היתה here dubious; Sta proposes 2 feminine singular הָיִת, and strike out ׳ח הים; without הים, 2:7.
4 band, company of prophets 1 Samuel 10:5, 10. — II.חֶבֶל see below II. חָבַל.
חֵ֫בֶל noun masculineIsaiah 66:7 (but see Jeremiah 49:24) pain, pang; — ׳ח absolute Isaiah 66:7; elsewhere plural חֲבָלִים 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 יאֹחֵזוּן וַחֲבָלִים צִירִים 13:8 ("" יְחִילוּן כַּיּוֺלֵדָה), also Jeremiah 13:21; 22:23; 49:24; of crisis of redemption Hosea 13:13 ("" יוֺלֵדָה חֶבְלֵי), of birth of new Israel Isaiah 66:7.
2 of other than birth-pangs only חבלים Job 21:17; pains, pangs, sorrows (so ᵑ9 ᵐ5 Thes, — otherwise Add. — Rob-Ges Hi Da and others; "" אֵידָם יָבאֹ יִדְעָ֑ךְ, נֵר ); > 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 11:14. see חָבַל 1
II. חֶ֫בֶל noun masculine destruction — נִמְרָץ חֶבֶל Micah 2:10; compare II.חָבַל
Pi`el above