# H2254 חָבַל

חָבַל (châbal), Strong’s H2254: 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) KJV…

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H2254 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*châbal* — 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)

KJV: [idiom] at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay to (take…

Occurs 27 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָבַל vb. act (ruinously) corruptly
- Qal act corruptly against
- Niph. Impf. shall be ruined
- Pi. ruin, destroy
- Pu. be ruined, broken
- חָבַל vb
- [חָבַל] vb. bind, pledge
- Qal
- 1 bind
- 2 bind by taking a pledge of
- Niph. Impf. becometh pledged to it
- Pi. writhe, twist, hence travail

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 22:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=25) — If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
- [Deuteronomy 24:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/24?v=6) — No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
- [Deuteronomy 24:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/24?v=17) — You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
- [Isaiah 10:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=27) — It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the…
- [Isaiah 13:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=5) — They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to…
- [Isaiah 32:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/32?v=7) — The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy…
- [Isaiah 54:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/54?v=16) — “Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame, and forges a weapon for his work; and I have…
- [Ezekiel 18:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/18?v=16) — hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry…
- [Amos 2:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/2?v=8) — They lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge. In the house of their God they drink the wine…
- [Micah 2:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/micah/2?v=10) — Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous…