Strong's Definition
or chebel {khay'-bel}; from 2254; 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
KJV Usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חֶ֫בֶל (che.vel) — Mahalab. This name means a cord, territory, region Another name of ach.lav (אַחְלָב "Ahlab" H0303)
חֵ֫בֶל (che.vel) — pain. 1) pain, sorrow, travail, pang 1a) pains of travail 1b) pains, pangs, sorrows
חֹבְלִים (chov.lim) — union. union
חֶ֫בֶל (che.vel) — destruction. destruction
חֶ֫בֶל (che.vel) — cord. 1) a cord, rope, territory, band, company 1a) a rope, cord 1b) a measuring-cord or line 1c) a measured portion, lot, part, region 1d) a band or company § destruction
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · חבל
noun m · חבל
Cords
rope, cord = piece of stout cord; ◄ made by twisting together palm fibres, linen, or reeds; ► used for tying and keeping things together, climbing, measuring, drawing things to oneself, making traps, etc.; ≈ often used in a figurative sense to refer to conditions that try to take control of people; a rope tied around the head is a symbol of submission
JOS 2:15 · 2SA 8:2 · 2SA 8:2 · 2SA 8:2 · 2SA 17:13 · 1KI 20:31 · 1KI 20:32 · EST 1:6 · JOB 40:25 · PSA 16:6 · PSA 78:55 · ECC 12:6 · ISA 5:18 · ISA 5:18 · ISA 5:18 · ISA 33:20 · ISA 33:23 · JER 38:6 · JER 38:11 · JER 38:12 · JER 38:13 · EZK 27:24 · HOS 11:4 · AMO 7:17 · MIC 2:5 · ZEC 2:5
Traps | ≈ זֵק · מַלְכֹּדֶת · פַּח · צַמִּים · רֶשֶׁת · שְׂבָכָה
noose, trap literally: rope; hence: = rope tied into a noose, attached to the other end to a bent bough or small tree that springs upright and tightens the noose around the victim when the trap is sprung; ► used for hunting animals; ≈ associated with aggression and control
2SA 22:6 · JOB 18:10 · JOB 36:8 · PSA 18:5 · PSA 18:6 · PSA 116:3 · PSA 119:61 · PSA 140:6 · PRO 5:22
noun m · חבל
1 ISA 5:18 · MIC 2:10 Some commentators suppose that "cord of deceit" refers to the knotted strands of a cord used in a Babylonian magical ritual to attract evil (De Waard 1997:27).
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
חֶ֫בֶל n.m. f. cord, territory, band cord, rope
measuring-cord, line
measured portion, lot, part, region
band, company of prophets
base
חֵ֫בֶל n.m. pain, pang pains of travail
of other than birth-pangs
base
חֹבְלִים n.[m.]pl. union (lit. binders) name of Zec.’s second symbolic staff base
חֶ֫בֶל n.m. destruction—Mi 2:10 ref
