Lexical Definition

‎חֶבֶל‎ chebel (kheh'-bel) Mahalab ^H:N
or חֵבֶל chêbel (khay'-bel); from ‎חָבַל‎

band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.

• 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

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
2) pain, sorrow, travail, pang
2a) pains of travail
2b) pains, pangs, sorrows
3) union
4) destruction

See Greek: διαφθορά · κλῆρος · ὀδύνη · περίχωρος · πόνος · σειρά · σχοινίον · σχοινίον · φθορά · χορός · ὠδίν · ὠδίν

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎חֶ֫בֶל‎ noun masculine^{Josh 2:14} feminine ^{Zeph 2:6} (but see below) cord, territory, band; ‎׳‎‎ח‎ absolute Josh 2:15 +; construct Deut 3:4 +, ‎חֵ֫בֶל‎ Josh 19:29 suffix ‎חַבְלוֺ‎ Job 18:10 plural ‎חֲבָלִים‎ 2Sam 8:2 + 10 t. + Ezek 47:13; Job 21:7 see below; construct ‎חַבְלֵי‎ Josh 17:5 + 5 t.; ‎חֶבְלֵי‎ Ps 116:3 + 2 t. + Ps 18:5* (read ‎משׁברי‎ see below); suffix ‎הֲבָלָ֑יִךְ‎ Isa 33:23 ‎חֲבָלָיו‎ Isa 33:20 —

1. cord, rope, by which men were lowered Josh 2:15 (JE), Jer 38:6; Jer 38:11; Jer 38:12; Jer 38:13, or stones dragged 2Sam 17:13 of tents Isa 33:20 tackling of ship vIsa 33:23 for binding Ezek 27:24; Job 40:25*; Esth 1:6 symbol of captivity or subjection 1Kgs 20:31; 1Kgs 20:32 figurative of snare for wicked Job 18:10 (|| ‎מַלְכֻּדְתּוֺ‎), set by wicked Ps 140:6* (|| ‎פַּה‎); Ps 119:61 cords of wicked men have surrounded me; of wicked held ‎בחבלי חַטָּאתוֺ‎ Prov 5:22 ‎׳‎‎ח‎ ‎הָשָּׁ֑וְא‎ Isa 5:18 cords (ropes) of wickedness (|| ‎כַּעֲבוֺת‎ ‎הָעֲגָלָה‎); of cords of distress (‎עֹ֑נִי‎) Job 36:8 (|| ‎וִקִּים‎); so ‎חֶבְלֵי מָוֶת‎ (probably) Ps 116:3, ‎חֶבְלֵי שׁאוֺל‎ Ps 18:6* = 2Sam 22:6 (|| ‎מוֺקְשֵׁי מָוֶת‎); — for ‎חֶבְלֵי מות‎ Ps 18:5* read ‎מִשְׁבְּרֵי‎, see 2Sam 22:5 and || ‎נַחֲלֵי בְלִיַּעַל‎, De Che Bae; to draw ‎בְּחַבְלֵי אָדָם‎ Hos 11:4 (i.e. humanely, kindly); of cord of life ‎חֶבֶל הַכֶּסֶף‎ Eccl 12:6.

2. measuring-cord, line ‎מִדָּה‎ ‎׳‎‎ח‎ Zech 2:5* so ‎׳‎‎ח‎ alone 2Sam 8:2 (3 t. in verse); Amos 7:17; Mic 2:5; Ps 78:55 figurative (of favoured life) Ps 16:5 in general of one's portion, fortune Job 21:17 according to ᵑ7 Thes Add. Ew Di and others, but < see ‎חֵבֶל‎. Thence

3. measured portion, lot, part, region, ‎נַחֲלָה‎ ‎׳‎‎ח‎ inherited portion Deut 32:9; 1Chr 16:18 = Ps 105:11 also ‎׳‎‎ח‎ alone Josh 17:5; Josh 17:14; Josh 19:9; Ezek 47:13 (‎חבלים‎; ᵑ9 ᵑ7 read as dual, see Ew Sm Da and others; Co strike out on internal grounds); of particular regions ‎אַרְגֹּב‎ ‎׳‎‎ח‎ Deut 3:4; Deut 3:13; Deut 3:14; 1Kgs 4:13 ‎אַכְזִיב‎ ‎׳‎‎ח‎ Josh 19:29 (si vera 1., see WMM^{Asien 194}); ‎הַיָּם‎ ‎׳‎‎ח‎ Zeph 2:5 also vZeph 2:6, but ‎׳‎‎היתה ח‎ here dubious; Sta proposes 2 feminine singular ‎הָיִת‎, and strike out ‎הים‎ ‎׳‎‎ח‎; without ‎הים‎, vZeph 2:7.

4. band, company of prophets 1Sam 10:5; 1Sam 10:10. — II. ‎חֶבֶל‎ see below II. ‎חָבַל‎.

‎חֵ֫בֶל‎ noun masculine^{Isa 66:7} (but see Jer 49:24) pain, pang; — ‎׳‎‎ח‎ absolute Isa 66:7 elsewhere plural ‎חֲבָלִים‎ Isa 13:8 + 3 t. + Job 21:17 see below; construct ‎חֶבְלֵי‎ Hos 13:13 suffix ‎חֲבָלֶיהָ‎ Isa 26:17 ‎חֶבְלֵיהֶם‎ Job 39:3 (on suffix see Ges^{«GKC:135»§ 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).
b. simile of distress of exiles Isa 26:17 figurative of anguish of nations ‎צִירִים וַחֲבָלִים יאֹחֵזוּן‎ Isa 13:8 (|| ‎כַּיּוֺלֵדָה יְחִילוּן‎), also Jer 13:21; Jer 22:23; Jer 49:24 of crisis of redemption Hos 13:13 (|| ‎חֶבְלֵי יוֺלֵדָה‎), of birth of new Israel Isa 66:7.

2. of other than birth-pangs only ‎חבלים‎ Job 21:17 pains, pangs, sorrows (so ᵐ5 ᵑ9 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 Zech 11:7 and with article vZech 11:14. see ‎חָבַל‎

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II. ‎חֶ֫בֶל‎ noun masculine destruction — ‎חֶבֶל נִמְרָץ‎ Mic 2:10 compare II. ‎חָבַל‎ Pi`el above

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