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:
Ezekiel 47:13: "according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions."
Hosea 11:4: "I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke"
Hosea 13:13: " The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for"
Amos 7:17: "by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die a polluted"
Micah 2:5: "thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD."
Micah 2:10: "it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction."
Zephaniah 2:5: "Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD"
Zephaniah 2:6: "And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks."
Zephaniah 2:7: " And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses"
Zechariah 2:1: "and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand."
Zechariah 11:7: "Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock."
Zechariah 11:14: "mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between"
