Strong's #2256: chebel (pronounced 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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chebel / chêbel
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
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H2254
Same Word by TWOT Number: 592b, 595a
Usage:
This word is used 62 times:
Deuteronomy 3:4: "from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og"
Deuteronomy 3:13: "tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which"
Deuteronomy 3:14: "took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri"
Deuteronomy 32:9: "portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance."
Joshua 2:15: "Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall,"
Joshua 17:5: "And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead"
Joshua 17:14: "me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great"
Joshua 19:9: "Out of the portion Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for"
Joshua 19:29: "and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast from the coast to Achzib:"
1 Samuel 10:5: "and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down"
1 Samuel 10:10: "thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God"
2 Samuel 8:2: "Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two"
2 Samuel 8:2: "casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full"
2 Samuel 8:2: "lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became"
2 Samuel 17:13: "then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw"
2 Samuel 22:6: " The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented"
1 Kings 4:13: "of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore"
1 Kings 20:31: "put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king"
1 Kings 20:32: "So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king"
1 Chronicles 16:18: "Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"
Esther 1:6: "green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver"
Job 18:10: " The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way."
Job 21:17: "their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger."
Job 36:8: "they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;"
Job 39:3: "themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows."
Job 41:1: "leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"
Psalms 16:6: " The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage."
Psalms 18:4: " The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid."
Psalms 18:5: " The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented"
Psalms 78:55: "also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell"
Psalms 105:11: "the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:"
Psalms 116:3: " The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found trouble"
Psalms 119:61: " The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law."
Psalms 140:5: "The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside;"
Proverbs 5:22: "the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins."
Ecclesiastes 12:6: "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl"
Isaiah 5:18: "Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:"
Isaiah 13:8: "And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one"
Isaiah 26:17: "the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight,"
Isaiah 33:20: "be removed, shall any of the cords thereof be broken."
Isaiah 33:23: " Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread"
Isaiah 66:7: "she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child."
Jeremiah 13:21: "them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman"
Jeremiah 22:23: "in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!"
Jeremiah 38:6: "and they let down Jeremiah with cords. there was no water, but"
Jeremiah 38:11: "old cast clouts and old rotten rags, by cords into the dungeon"
Jeremiah 38:12: "under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did"
Jeremiah 38:13: "So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon:"
Jeremiah 49:24: "and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail."
Ezekiel 27:24: "and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise."
