H2256 חֶבֶל (kheh'-bel)
- KJV renderings
- band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
- Strong's 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 (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
- Derivation
- or חֵבֶל; from H2254 (חָבַל);
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