† I. חֶ֫בֶל noun masculineJoshua 2:14 feminine Zephaniah 2:6 (but see below)
cord, territory, band;
ח׳ absolute
Joshua 2:15 +; construct
Deuteronomy 3:4 +,
חֵ֫בֶל Joshua 19:29; suffix
חַבְלוֺ Job 18:10; plural
חֲבָלִים 2 Samuel 8:2 +
10 times +
Ezekiel 47:13;
Job 21:7 see below; construct
חַבְלֵי Joshua 17:5 +
5 times;
חֶבְלֵי Psalm 116:3 +
2 times +
Psalm 18:5 (read
משׁברי see below); suffix
הֲבָלָ֑יִךְ Isaiah 33:23;
חֲבָלָיו Isaiah 33:20; —
1. cord, rope, by which men were lowered
Joshua 2:15 (JE),
Jeremiah 38:6,
11,
12,
13, or stones dragged
2 Samuel 17:13; of tents
Isaiah 33:20; tackling of ship
Isaiah 33:23; for binding
Ezekiel 27:24; Job 40:25;
Esther 1:6; symbol of captivity or subjection
1 Kings 20:31,
32; figurative of snare for wicked
Job 18:10 (||
מַלְכֻּדְתּוֺ), set by wicked
Psalm 140:6 (||
מַּה);
Psalm 119:61 cords of wicked men have surrounded me; of wicked held
בחבלי חַטָּאתוֺ Proverbs 5:22;
ח׳ הָשָּׁ֑וְא Isaiah 5:18 cords (
ropes)
of wickedness (||
כַּעֲבוֺת הָעֲגָלָה); of cords of distress (
עֹ֑נִי)
Job 36:8 (||
וִקִּים); so
חֶבְלֵי מָוֶת (probably)
Psalm 116:3,
חֶבְלֵי שׁאוֺל Psalm 18:6 =
2 Samuel 22:6 (||
מוֺקְשֵׁי מָוֶת); — for
חֶבְלֵי מות Psalm 18:5 read
מִשְׁבְּרֵי, see
2 Samuel 22:5 and ||
נַחֲלֵי בְלִיַּעַל, De Che Bae; to draw
בְּחַבְלֵי אָדָם Hosea 11:4 (i.e.
humanely, kindly); of cord of life
חֶבֶל הַכֶּסֶף Ecclesiastes 12:6.
3. measured portion, lot, part, region,
נַחֲלָה ח׳ inherited portion Deuteronomy 32:9;
1 Chronicles 16:18 =
Psalm 105:11; also
ח׳ alone
Joshua 17:5,
14;
Joshua 19:9;
Ezekiel 47:13 (
חבלים;

read as dual, see Ew Sm Da and others; Co strike out on internal grounds); of particular regions
אַרְגֹּב ח׳ Deuteronomy 3:4,
13,
14;
1 Kings 4:13;
אַכְזִיב ח׳ Joshua 19:29 (si vera lectio, see WMM
Asien 194);
הַיָּם ח׳ Zephaniah 2:5; also
Zephaniah 2:6, but
היתה ח׳ here dubious; Sta proposes
2nd person feminine singular הָיִת, and strike out
הים ח׳; without
הים,
Zephaniah 2:7.
4. band, company of prophets
1 Samuel 10:5,
10. — II.
חֶבֶל see below II.
חָבַל.
חֵ֫בֶל noun masculineIsaiah 66:7 (but see
Jeremiah 49:24)
pain, pang; —
ח׳ absolute
Isaiah 66:7; elsewhere plural
חֲבָלִים Isaiah 13:8 +
3 times +
Job 21:17 see below; construct
חֶבְלֵי Hosea 13:13; suffix
חֲבָלֶיהָ Isaiah 26:17;
חֶבְלֵיהֶם Job 39:3 (on suffix see Ges
§ 135, 5, R 1); —
pain, pang:
1. pains of travail:
a. object of
תְּשַׁלַּחְנָה Job 39:3 meton. for
off spring (||
יַלְדֵיהֶן; see Di; of goats and hinds).
2. of other than birth-pangs only
חבלים Job 21:17;
pains, pangs, sorrows (so

Thes, — otherwise Add. — Rob-Ges Hi Da and others; ||
נֵר יִדְעָ֑ךְ,
יָבאֹ אֵידָם); > others,
portion, fortune, see
חֶבֶל.
חֹבְלִים noun [
masculine]
plural union (literally
binders) name of Zechariah's second symbolic staff
Zechariah 11:7 and with article
Zechariah 11:14. see
חָבַל 1.
II. חֶ֫בֶל noun masculine destruction —
חֶבֶל נִמְרָץ Micah 2:10; compare
H2254 II.
חָבַל Pi.
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