חֶבֶל chevel

Hebrew word for “cord” · Strong’s H2256 · used 62 times in 60 verses

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Meaning

1) a cord, rope, territory, band, company;

Senses in the lexicon

• cord (49)
• pain (9)
• union (2)
• Mahalab (1)
• destruction (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for chevel in context, with how often each is used:

• ropes 12
• cords 9
• region 8
• measuring-line 5
• labor-pains 5
• portion 4
• pains 4
• cord 3
• rope 2
• company 2
• union 2
• measured portion 1

Where it is used

Also in 7 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Jeremiah 38 (4), Deuteronomy 3 (3), Zephaniah 2 (3), Joshua 17 (2), Joshua 19 (2), 1 Samuel 10 (2), 1 Kings 20 (2), Psalms 18 (2), Isaiah 33 (2), Micah 2 (2)

Forms

• חבל 16
• חבלים 8
• חבלי 7
• וחבלים 5
• בחבל 4
• בחבלי 4
• בחבלים 4
• וחבל 2
• מחבל 2
• החבל 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chevel more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַרְגֹּב argov “Argob” 4
• נַחֲלָה nachalah “inheritance” 7
• בָּשָׁן bashan “Bashan” 5
• יָלַד yalad “to beget” 7
• מָשַׁךְ mashakh “to draw” 4
• בּוֹר bor “pit” 4
• אָחַז achaz “to grasp” 4
• כֵּן ken “so” 6
• מְנַשֶּׁה menashsheh “Manasseh” 4
• יִרְמְיָהוּ yirmeyah “Jeremiah” 4
• מוֹקֵשׁ moqesh “snare” 3
• מָוֶת mavet “death” 4

Key verses

The verses using chevel that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 32:9 — For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
• 1 Samuel 10:5 — After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city,…
• 2 Samuel 8:2 — And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to…
• Psalms 18:4 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
• Psalms 78:55 — He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
• Psalms 116:3 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Psalms 140:5 — The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
• Proverbs 5:22 — His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
• Jeremiah 22:23 — O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
• Jeremiah 38:6 — Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with…
• Zephaniah 2:7 — And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the…
• Zechariah 11:7 — And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands;…

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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.