The meaning of “חֶבֶל”
Understanding chebel reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
or חֵבֶל chêbel (khay'-bel); from חָבַל band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion...
חֶבֶל
or חֵבֶל chêbel (khay'-bel); from חָבַל band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling. - 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 1) a cord, rope, territory, band, company 1a) a rope, cord 1b) a measuring-cord or line 1c) a measured portion, lot, part, region 1d) a band or company 2) pain, sorrow, travail, pang 2a) pains of travail 2b) pains, pangs, sorrows 3) union 4) destruction
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Deuteronomy 3:14 | “Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan–havoth–jair, unto this day.” Word: חֶבֶל (chebel) | |
| 2 Samuel 17:13 | “Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.” Word: חֶבֶל (chebel) | |
| Esther 1:6 | “Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.” Word: חֶבֶל (chebel) | |
| Proverbs 5:22 | “His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.” Word: חֶבֶל (chebel) | |
| Jeremiah 38:11 | “So Ebed–melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.” Word: חֶבֶל (chebel) |
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