{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2256",
  "lemma": "חֶבֶל",
  "transliteration": "chebel",
  "definition": "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…",
  "kjv": "band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion…",
  "occurrences": 62,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H2254",
      "lemma": "חָבַל",
      "transliteration": "châbal",
      "meaning": "to wind tightly",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H2254"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "חֵ֫בֶל n.m. pain, pang",
    "1. pains of travail",
    "2. of other than birth-pangs",
    "חֶ֫בֶל n.m",
    "חֶ֫בֶל n.m. f. cord, territory, band",
    "1. cord, rope",
    "2. measuring-cord, line",
    "3. measured portion, lot, part, region",
    "4. band, company of prophets",
    "חֶ֫בֶל n.m",
    "חֶ֫בֶל n.m. destruction—Mi 2:10",
    "חֹבְלִים n.[m.]pl",
    "חֹבְלִים n.[m.]pl. union (lit. binders) name of Zec.’s second symbolic staff"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 3:4",
      "text": "We took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, all the region…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 3:13",
      "text": "and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 3:14",
      "text": "Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 32:9",
      "text": "For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 2:15",
      "text": "Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 17:5",
      "text": "Ten parts fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 17:14",
      "text": "The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 19:9",
      "text": "Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 19:29",
      "text": "The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 10:5",
      "text": "“After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=5"
    }
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