Strong's H2254 · Hebrew

chabal

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)

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H2254a

H2254a חָבַל bind , pledge . . bind . bind by taking a pledge of . Impf . becometh pledged to it H2254b חָבַל act (ruinously) corruptly . act corruptly against . Impf . shall be ruined . ruin , destroy . be ruined , broken H2254c חָבַל bind , pledge . writhe , twist , hence travail

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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