חָבַשׁ chavash

Hebrew word for “to saddle/tie” · Strong’s H2280 · used 33 times in 30 verses

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Meaning

1) to tie, bind, bind on, bind up, saddle, restrain, bandage, govern;

How it is translated

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

• saddled 10
• bind up 3
• saddle 2
• will bind up 2
• will bind on 1
• bound on 1
• me saddle 1
• may bind up 1
• restrains 1
• will he govern 1
• binding up 1
• have been bound up 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 13 (3), Ezekiel 34 (2), Genesis 22 (1), Exodus 29 (1), Leviticus 8 (1), Numbers 22 (1), Judges 19 (1), 2 Samuel 16 (1), 2 Samuel 17 (1), 2 Samuel 19 (1)

Forms

• ויחבשׁ 7
• חבשׁ 4
• חבשׁו 3
• חבשׁים 2
• ויחבשׁו 2
• חבושׁ 2
• וחבשׁת 1
• חבושׁים 1
• אחבשׁה 1
• ותחבשׁ 1

Words used with it

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

• חֲמוֹר chamor “donkey” 9
• רָפָא rapah “to heal” 5
• שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 5
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 8
• קוּם qum “to arise” 5
• לֶחֶם lechem “food” 4
• מִגְבָּעוֹת migbaah “headgear” 2
• רָכַב rakhav “to ride” 3
• אַבְנֵט avnet “girdle” 2
• רִקְמָה riqmah “embroidery” 2
• צֶמֶד tsemed “pair” 2
• בָּקַשׁ baqash “to seek” 3

Key verses

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

• Genesis 22:3 — And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt…
• Exodus 29:9 — And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and…
• 2 Samuel 16:1 — And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two…
• 2 Samuel 17:23 — And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in…
• Psalms 147:3 — He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
• Isaiah 1:6 — From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither…
• Isaiah 30:26 — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the…
• Isaiah 61:1 — The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to…
• Ezekiel 16:10 — I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
• Ezekiel 34:4 — The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought…
• Ezekiel 34:16 — I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:…
• Hosea 6:1 — Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

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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.