חָבַל chaval
Hebrew word for “to pledge” · Strong’s H2254 · used 27 times in 23 verses
Meaning
1) to bind; 1a) (Qal);
Senses in the lexicon
- to pledge (12)
- to destroy (12)
- be in labour (3)
How it is translated
Glosses given for chaval in context, with how often each is used:
- will take as pledge 2
- hold in pledge 2
- will destroy 2
- ruin 2
- labor with 2
- certainly if 1
- anyone will take as pledge 1
- taking as pledge 1
- have held in pledge 1
- take as pledge 1
- take pledges 1
- has taken as pledge 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job | 5 | 0.6 | |
| Isaiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Deuteronomy | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Proverbs | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Song of Solomon | 3 | 2.4 | |
| Exodus | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Nehemiah | 2 | 0.4 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Amos | 1 | 0.5 | |
| Micah | 1 | 0.7 |
Chapters where it is used most
Deuteronomy 24 (2), Job 24 (2), Exodus 22 (1), Nehemiah 1 (1), Job 17 (1), Job 22 (1), Job 34 (1), Psalms 7 (1), Proverbs 13 (1), Proverbs 20 (1)
Forms
- חבל 4
- תחבל 4
- יחבל 3
- לחבל 3
- יחבלו 2
- חבלהו 2
- חבלה 2
- וחבל 2
- חבלים 1
- חבלנו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with chaval more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 6
- יָתוֹם yatom “orphan” 3
- עָרַב arav “to pledge” 2
- גָּזַל gazal “to plunder” 2
- כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 3
- נׇכְרִי nokhri “foreign” 2
- מִשְׁפָּט mishpat “justice” 3
- אַלְמָנָה almanah “widow” 2
- עָנִי ani “afflicted” 2
- זוּר zur “be a stranger” 2
- בַּעַד bead “about/through/for” 2
- שֶׁקֶר sheqer “deception” 2
Key verses
The verses using chaval that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 22:26 — If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
- Deuteronomy 24:17 — Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
- Job 22:6 — For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- Job 34:31 — Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend
- Psalms 7:14 — Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
- Proverbs 13:13 — Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
- Song of Solomon 8:5 — Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she…
- Isaiah 10:27 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be…
- Isaiah 13:5 — They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
- Isaiah 32:7 — The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
- Amos 2:8 — And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
- Micah 2:10 — Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
See all 23 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.