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Hebrew · Strong's H2257

חֲבַל

chabalkhab-al'

harm (personal or pecuniary)

1890 spelling: chăbal

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

harm (personal or pecuniary)

Rendered in the KJV as

damage, hurt.

  • 3
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 3
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 3 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 3

  • וַחֲבָ֖ל1
  • חֲבָל֙1
  • חֲבָלָ֔א1

How it is rendered · 3

  • and hurt1
  • damage the1
  • hurt1

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 3

  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular1
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular1
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • AC/Ncbsa · 1
  • ANcbsa · 1
  • ANcbsd/Ta · 1

All 3, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Daniel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled חֲבַל

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).