H2256aNoun, masculine50 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Deuteronomy 3:4חֶבֶל
At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Joshua 2:15בַּחֶבֶל
Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
- 2 Samuel 17:13חֲבָלִים
If he retreats to a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a pebble can be found there.”
- 1 Kings 4:13חֶבֶל
Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
- Psalm 18:4חֶבְלֵי
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- Jeremiah 38:6בַּחֲבָלִים
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.