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Lexicon :: Strong's H2256 - ḥēḇel

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חֵבֶל
Transliteration
ḥēḇel
Pronunciation
kheh'-bel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 592b,595a

Strong’s Definitions

חֶבֶל chebel, kheh'-bel; or חֵבֶל chêbel; from H2254; 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); a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin:—band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x

The KJV translates Strong's H2256 in the following manner: sorrows (10x), cord (16x), line (7x), coast (4x), portion (4x), region (3x), lot (3x), ropes (3x), company (2x), pangs (2x), bands (1x), country (1x), destruction (1x), pain (1x), snare (1x), tacklings (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x
The KJV translates Strong's H2256 in the following manner: sorrows (10x), cord (16x), line (7x), coast (4x), portion (4x), region (3x), lot (3x), ropes (3x), company (2x), pangs (2x), bands (1x), country (1x), destruction (1x), pain (1x), snare (1x), tacklings (1x).

  1. a cord, rope, territory, band, company

    1. a rope, cord

    2. a measuring-cord or line

    3. a measured portion, lot, part, region

    4. a band or company

  2. pain, sorrow, travail, pang

    1. pains of travail

    2. pains, pangs, sorrows

  3. union

  4. destruction

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֶבֶל chebel, kheh'-bel; or חֵבֶל chêbel; from H2254; 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); a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin:—band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
STRONGS H2256: Abbreviations
† 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 + 10 times + Ezekiel 47:13; Job 21:7 see below; construct חַבְלֵי Joshua 17:5 + 5 times; חֶבְלֵי Psalm 116:3 + 2 times + Psalm 18:5 (read משׁברי see below); suffix הֲבָלָ֑יִךְ Isaiah 33:23; חֲבָלָיו Isaiah 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 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; ח׳ הָשָּׁ֑וְא Isaiah 5:18 cords (ropes) of wickedness (|| כַּעֲבוֺת הָעֲגָלָה); 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 (3 times 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 Targum 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; Vulgate Targum 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 lectio, see WMMAsien 194); הַיָּם ח׳ Zephaniah 2:5; also Zephaniah 2:6, but היתה ח׳ here dubious; Sta proposes 2nd person 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 masculineIsaiah 66:7 (but see Jeremiah 49:24) pain, pang; — ח׳ absolute Isaiah 66:7; elsewhere plural חֲבָלִים Isaiah 13:8 + 3 times + 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 only חבלים Job 21:17; pains, pangs, sorrows (so Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate 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 H2254 II.חָבַל Pi.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

3:4; 3:4; 3:13; 3:14; 32:9

Joshua

2:14; 2:15; 2:15; 17:5; 17:5; 17:14; 19:9; 19:29; 19:29

1 Samuel

10:5; 10:10

2 Samuel

8:2; 8:2; 17:13; 22:5; 22:6

1 Kings

4:13; 20:31; 20:32

1 Chronicles

16:18

Esther

1:6

Job

18:10; 18:10; 21:7; 21:17; 21:17; 21:17; 36:8; 39:3; 39:3

Psalms

16:5; 18:5; 18:5; 18:6; 78:55; 105:11; 116:3; 116:3; 119:61; 140:6

Proverbs

5:22

Ecclesiastes

12:6

Isaiah

5:18; 13:8; 13:8; 26:17; 26:17; 33:20; 33:20; 33:23; 33:23; 66:7; 66:7; 66:7

Jeremiah

13:21; 22:23; 38:6; 38:11; 38:12; 38:13; 49:24; 49:24

Ezekiel

27:24; 47:13; 47:13

Hosea

11:4; 13:13; 13:13

Amos

7:17

Micah

2:5; 2:10

Zephaniah

2:5; 2:6; 2:6; 2:7

Zechariah

2:5; 11:7; 11:14

H2256

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Strong's Number H2256 matches the Hebrew חֵבֶל (ḥēḇel),
which occurs 62 times in 60 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Deu 3:4–Hos 11:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - And we mastered all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; sixty cities, all the country round about Argob, belonging to king Og in Basan:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13 - And the rest of Galaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og I gave to the half-tribe of Manasse, and all the country round about Argob, all that Basan; it shall be accounted the land of Raphain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:14 - And Jair the son of Manasse took all the country round about Argob as far as the borders of Gargasi and Machathi: he called them by his name Basan Thavoth Jair until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:9 - And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:15 - And she let them down by the window;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:5 - And their lot fell to them from Anassa, and to the plain of Labec of the land of Galaad, which is beyond Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:14 - And the sons of Joseph answered Joshua, saying, Wherefore hast thou caused us to inherit one inheritance, and one line? whereas I am a great people, and God has blessed me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:9 - The inheritance of the tribe of the children of Symeon was a part of the lot of Juda, for the portion of the children of Juda was greater than theirs; and the children of Symeon inherited in the midst of their lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:29 - And the borders shall turn back to Rama, and to the fountain of Masphassat, and the Tyrians; and the borders shall return to Jasiph, and their going forth shall be the sea, and Apoleb, and Echozob,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - And afterward thou shalt go to the hill of God, where is the encampment of the Philistines; there is Nasib the Philistine: and it shall come to pass when ye shall have entered into the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets coming down from the Bama; and before them will be lutes, and a drum, and a pipe, and a harp, and they [fn]shall prophesy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:10 - And he comes thence to the hill, and behold a band of prophets opposite to him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied in the midst of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:2 - And David smote Moab, and measured them out with lines, having [fn]laid them down on the ground: and there were two lines for slaying, and two lines he kept alive: and Moab became servants to David, yielding tribute.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:13 - And if he shall have taken refuge with his army in a city, then shall all Israel take ropes to that city, and we will draw it even into the river, that there may not be left there even a stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:6 - the pangs of death surrounded me, the agonies of death prevented me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 - The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him fell the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen bars, one.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31 - (LXX 21:31) And he said to his servants, I know that the kings of Israel are [fn]merciful kings: let us now put sackcloth upon our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and let us go forth to the king of Israel, if by any means he will save our souls alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:32 - (LXX 21:32) So they girt sackcloth upon their loins, and put ropes upon their heads, and said to the king of Israel, Thy servant the son of Ader says, Let our [fn]souls live, I pray thee. And he said, Does he yet live? He is my brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:18 - saying, To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:6 - which was adorned with hangings of fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of Parian marble and stone: there were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of Parian stone, and open-worked coverings variously flowered, having roses worked round about;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:10 - His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:17 - Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:8 - But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:3 - and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:1 - (LXX 40:25) But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:6 - (LXX 15:6) The lines have fallen to me in the best places, yea, I have a most excellent heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:4 - (LXX 17:5) The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:5 - (LXX 17:6) The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:55 - (LXX 77:55) And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:11 - (LXX 104:11) saying, To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:3 - (LXX 114:3) The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:61

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:61 - (LXX 118:61) The snares of sinners entangled me: but I forgot not thy law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:5 - (LXX 139:6) The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; they set a stumbling-block for me near the path. Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:22 - Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:6 - before the silver cord be let go, or the choice gold be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel run down to the cistern;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:8 - The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:17 - And as a woman in travail draws nigh to be delivered, and cries out in her pain; so have we been to thy beloved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:20 - Behold the city Sion, [fn]our refuge: thine eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved for ever, neither shall her cords be at all broken:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23 - Thy cords are broken, for they had no strength: thy mast has given way, it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame men take spoil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:7 - Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail-pain came on, she escaped it and brought forth a male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:21 - What wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for thou didst teach them lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs seize thee as a woman in travail?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:23 - O thou that dwellest in Libanus, making thy nest in the cedars, thou shalt groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:6 - (LXX 45:6) And they cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire: and he was in the mire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:11 - (LXX 45:11) So Abdemelech took the men, and went into the underground part of the king's house, and took thence old rags and old ropes, and threw them to Jeremias into the dungeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:12 - (LXX 45:12) And he said, Put these under the ropes. And Jeremias did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:13 - (LXX 45:13) And they drew him with the ropes, and lifted him out of the dungeon: and Jeremias remained in the court of the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:24 - (LXX 30:30) Damascus is utterly weakened, she is put to flight; trembling has seized upon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:24 - bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:13 - Thus saith the Lord God; Ye shall inherit these borders of the land; they are given by lot to the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:4 - When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man smiting another on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.

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