Lexicon :: Strong's H2256 - ḥēḇel

“For the LORD’S portion and chosen share is His people;

Jacob (Israel) is the allotment of His inheritance.

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built [fn]into the city wall, so that she was living on the wall.

The sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given us only one lot and one portion as an inheritance, when we are a numerous people whom the LORD has so far blessed?”

He defeated [fn]Moab, and [fn]measured them with a length of rope, making them lie down on the ground; he measured two lengths to [choose those to] put to death, and one full length to [choose those to] be kept alive. And the [surviving] Moabites became servants to David, bringing tribute.

“The cords of Sheol surrounded me;

The snares of death confronted me.

But his servants said to him, “We have heard that the kings of the house (royal line) of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth around our [fn]loins and ropes on our necks [as symbols of submission], and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”

Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,

As the portion of your possession and inheritance.”

“A noose is hidden for him on the ground,

And a trap for him on the path.

“How often [then] is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,

And that their disaster falls on them?

Does God distribute pain and destruction and sorrow [to them] in His anger?

“And if they are bound in bonds [of adversity],

And held by cords of affliction,

“They kneel down, they bring forth their young,

They cast out their labor pains.

“[fn]Can you draw out [fn]Leviathan with a fishhook?

Or press down his tongue with a cord?

The [boundary] lines [of the land] have fallen for me in pleasant places;

Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.

The cords of death surrounded me,

And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.

He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel

And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;

And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].

Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan

As the measured portion of your inheritance.”

The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,

And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;

I found distress and sorrow.

The cords of the wicked have encircled and ensnared me,

But I have not forgotten Your law.

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;

They have spread a net by the wayside;

They have set traps for me. Selah.

The iniquities done by a wicked man will trap him,

And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who drag along wickedness with cords of falsehood,

And sin as if with cart ropes [towing their own punishment];

They [of Babylon] will be shocked and terrified,

Pains and anguish will grip them;

They will be in pain like a woman in childbirth.

They will stare aghast and horrified at one another,

Their faces aflame [from the effects of the unprecedented warfare].

As a woman with child approaches the time to give birth,

She is in pain and struggles and cries out in her labor,

So we were before You, O LORD.

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts and observances;

Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a undisturbed settlement,

A tent which will not be taken down;

Not one of its stakes will ever be pulled up,

Nor any of its ropes be severed.

Your ship’s ropes (tackle) hang loose;

They cannot hold the base of their mast firmly,

Nor spread out the sail.

Then an abundance of spoil and plunder will be divided;

Even the lame will take the plunder.

“Before she (Zion) was in labor, she gave birth;

Before her labor pain came, she gave birth to a boy.

“What will you say [O Jerusalem] when the LORD appoints [foreign nations to rule] over you—

Those former friends and allies whom you have encouraged [to be your companions]—

Will not pain seize you

Like [that of] a woman in childbirth?

“O inhabitant of [Jerusalem, whose palaces are made from the cedars of] Lebanon,

You who nest in the cedars,

How you will groan and how miserable you will be when pains come on you,

Pain like a woman in childbirth!

“Damascus has become helpless;

She has turned away to flee,

Terror (panic) has seized her;

Anguish and distress have gripped her

Like a woman in childbirth.

Thus says the Lord GOD, “This shall be the boundary by which you shall divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions.

I led them gently with cords of a man, with bonds of love [guiding them],

And I was to them as one who lifts up and eases the yoke [of the law] over their jaws;

And I bent down to them and fed them.