Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H2257
חֲבַל
chabalkhab-al'
harm
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chăbal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2257is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2257
harm (personal or pecuniary)
The King James renders it: damage, hurt.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chabal is rendered "harm". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:22See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?
Ezra 4:22חֲבָלָ֔א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and hurt1
- damage the1
- hurt1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֲבַל | chabal | to destroy | Uses6 |
| חֲבַר | chabar | fellow | Uses6 |
| חֲבַצֶּלֶת | chabatstseleth | crocus | Uses2 |
| חֲבַרְבֻּרָה | chabarburah | spot | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַחֲבָ֖ל1
- חֲבָל֙1
- חֲבָלָ֔א1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular1AC/Ncbsa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular1ANcbsa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1ANcbsd/Ta
Ezra
one use
See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?
- חֲבָלָ֔אchavala'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: damage the
Daniel
two uses
“Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”
- וַחֲבָ֖לvachavalconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and hurt
The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den, and when Daniel was lifted out of the den, no wounds whatsoever were found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
- חֲבָל֙chavalnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: hurt
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.