2256. chebel
Lexical Summary
chebel: cord, territory, band
Original Word: חֶבֶל
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
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. חֶ֫בֶלnoun masculineJoshua 2:14 feminine Zephaniah 2:6 (but see below) cord, territory, band; ׳ח‎ absolute Joshua 2:15 +; construct Deuteronomy 3:4 +, חֵ֫בֶלJoshua 19:29; suffix חַבְלוֺJob 18:10; plural חֲבָלִים2 Samuel 8:2 10t. + Ezekiel 47:13; Job 21:7 see below; construct חַבְלֵיJoshua 17:5 5t.; חֶבְלֵיPsalm 116:3 2t. + 18:5 (read משׁברי‎ see below); suffix הֲבָלָ֑יִךְIsaiah 33:23; חֲבָלָיו33:20; —

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 בחבליProverbs 5:22; הָשָּׁ֑וְא ׳חIsaiah 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 חֶבְלֵי18:6 = 2 Samuel 22:6 ("" מָוֶת מוֺקְשֵׁי‎); — for מות חֶבְלֵיPsalm 18:5 read מִשְׁבְּרֵי‎, see 2 Samuel 22:5 and "" בְלִיַּעַל נַחֲלֵי‎, De Che Bae; to draw אָדָם בְּחַבְלֵיHosea 11:4 (i.e. humanely, kindly); of cord of life הַכֶּסֶף חֶבֶלEcclesiastes 12:6.

2 measuring-cord, line ׳ח מִדָּהZechariah 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 נַחֲלָהinherited 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 אַרְגֹּבDeuteronomy 3:4, 13, 14; 1 Kings 4:13; ׳ח אַכְזִיבJoshua 19:29 (si vera 1., see WMMAsien 194); ׳ח הַיָּםZephaniah 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.

חֵ֫בֶלnoun masculineIsaiah 66:7 (but see Jeremiah 49:24) pain, pang; — ׳ח‎ absolute Isaiah 66:7; elsewhere plural חֲבָלִים13:8 3t. + Job 21:17 see below; construct חֶבְלֵיHosea 13:13; suffix חֲבָלֶיהָIsaiah 26:17; חֶבְלֵיהֶםJob 39:3 (on suffix see Ges§ 135, 5, R 1); — pain, pang:

1 pains of travail:

a. object of תְּשַׁלַּחְנָהJob 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 צִירִים13:8 ("" 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 חבליםJob 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.

חֹבְלִיםnoun [masculine] plural union (literally binders) name of Zechariah's second symbolic staff Zechariah 11:7 and with article 11:14. see חָבַל1

II. חֶ֫בֶלnoun masculine destructionנִמְרָץ חֶבֶלMicah 2:10; compare II.חָבַל

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