Strong's #2254: chabal (pronounced 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):--X at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay &? to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, X very, withhold.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châbal

1) to bind

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to bind

2) to take a pledge, lay to pledge

2a) (Qal) to hold by a pledge, take in pledge, hold in pledge

2b) (Niphal) to give a pledge, become pledged

3) to destroy, spoil, deal corruptly, offend

3a) (Qal) to spoil, corrupt, offend

3b) (Niphal) to be ruined

3c) (Piel) to destroy, ruin

3d) (Pual) to be ruined, be broken

4) to bring forth, travail

4a) (Piel) to writhe, twist, travail

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 592, 593, 594, 595

Usage:

This word is used 30 times:

 

Exodus 22:26: "If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun"
Exodus 22:26: "If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun"
Deuteronomy 24:6: "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he"
Deuteronomy 24:6: "the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life"
Deuteronomy 24:6: "to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge."
Deuteronomy 24:6: "he taketh a man's life to pledge."
Deuteronomy 24:17: "of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:"
Deuteronomy 24:17: "take a widow's raiment to pledge:"
Nehemiah 1:7: " We have dealt very corruptly kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments,"
Nehemiah 1:7: "We have dealt very corruptly We have dealt very corruptly kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments,"
Job 17:1: "My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves"
Job 22:6: "For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing."
Job 24:3: "They drive away of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge."
Job 24:9: "They pluck from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor."
Job 34:31: "God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend"
Psalms 7:14: "Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood."
Proverbs 13:13: "Whoso despiseth shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded."
Proverbs 20:16: "that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman."
Proverbs 27:13: "that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman."
Ecclesiastes 5:6: "be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?"
Song of Solomon 2:15: "the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes."
Song of Solomon 8:5: "the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bore"
Song of Solomon 8:5: "thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bore"
Isaiah 10:27: "and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because"
Isaiah 13:5: "from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole"
Isaiah 32:7: "he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy"
Isaiah 54:16: "and I have created the waster to destroy."
Ezekiel 18:16: "any, hath not withheld the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence,"
Amos 2:8: "And they lay themselves down clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink"
Micah 2:10: "your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction."