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Lexicon :: Strong's H2254 - chabal

חָבַל

Transliteration chabal	Pronunciation khä·val' (Key)
Part of Speech verb	Root Word (Etymology) A primitive root
Dictionary Aids TWOT Reference: 592,593,594,5
KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x The KJV translates Strongs H2254 in the following manner: destroy (7x), take a pledge (5x), pledge (5x), bands (2x), brought forth (2x), at all (1x), corrupt (1x), corruptly (1x), offend (1x), spoil (1x), travaileth (1x), very (1x), withholden (1x).
Outline of Biblical Usage [?] to bind (Qal) to bind to take a pledge, lay to pledge (Qal) to hold by a pledge, take in pledge, hold in pledge (Niphal) to give a pledge, become pledged to destroy, spoil, deal corruptly, offend (Qal) to spoil, corrupt, offend (Niphal) to be ruined (Piel) to destroy, ruin (Pual) to be ruined, be broken to bring forth, travail (Piel) to writhe, twist, travail
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend) חָבַל châbal, khaw-bal'; a primitive root; to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition):—× at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, × very, withhold.
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Strong's Number H2254 matches the Hebrew חָבַל (chabal),
which occurs 34 times in 25 verses in the Hebrew concordance of the KJV

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	Exo 22:26	If thou at all ^H2254 take ^H2254 thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, ^H2254 thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
	Deu 24:6	No man shall take ^H2254 the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: ^H2254 for he taketh ^H2254 a man's life to pledge. ^H2254
	Deu 24:17	Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take ^H2254 a widow's raiment to pledge: ^H2254
	Neh 1:7	We have dealt very ^H2254 corruptly ^H2254 against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
	Job 17:1	My breath is corrupt, ^H2254 my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
	Job 22:6	For thou hast taken a pledge ^H2254 from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
	Job 24:3	They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take ^H2254 the widow's ox for a pledge. ^H2254
	Job 24:9	They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge ^H2254 of the poor.
	Job 34:31	Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend ^H2254 any more:
	Psa 7:14	Behold, he travaileth ^H2254 with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
	Pro 13:13	Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: ^H2254 but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
	Pro 20:16	Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge ^H2254 of him for a strange woman.
	Pro 27:13	Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge ^H2254 of him for a strange woman.
	Ecc 5:6	Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy ^H2254 the work of thine hands?
	Sng 2:15	Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil ^H2254 the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
	Sng 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: ^H2254 there she brought thee forth ^H2254 that bare thee.
	Isa 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 destroyed ^H2254 because of the anointing.
	Isa 13:5	They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy ^H2254 the whole land.
	Isa 32:7	The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy ^H2254 the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
	Isa 54:16	Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. ^H2254
	Eze 18:16	Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden ^H2254 the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
	Amo 2:8	And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge ^H2254 by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
	Mic 2:10	Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy ^H2254 you, even with a sore destruction.
	Zec 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; ^H2254 and I fed the flock.
	Zec 11:14	Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, ^H2254 that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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