# H2256 חֶבֶל

חֶבֶל (chebel), Strong’s H2256: 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…

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*chebel* — 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…

Derived from [חָבַל châbal](https://besorah.bible/word/H2254) (to wind tightly)

Occurs 62 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 3:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=4) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 3:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=13) — and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of…
- [Deuteronomy 3:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=14) — Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called…
- [Deuteronomy 32:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=9) — For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
- [Joshua 2:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=15) — 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…
- [Joshua 17:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=5) — Ten parts fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
- [Joshua 17:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=14) — The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance…
- [Joshua 19:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=9) — Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children…
- [Joshua 19:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=29) — The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the…
- [1 Samuel 10:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=5) — “After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you…