Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H2256
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- chebel
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H2256
- Brief meaning
- From H2254, a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line, by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured)
- Source renderings
- band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling
- Root word
- kheh'-bel or chebel {khay'-bel}
- Full definition from the source
- From H2254; 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. Root word: kheh'-bel or chebel {khay'-bel}.
- Digital-source-added cross-reference note
- H2254
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
View the 1890 print witnessView preserved source wording
02256\ 2256 chebel kheh'-bel or chebel {khay'-bel}; from 2254; 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:--band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling. see HEBREW for 02254