- Original: חבל חבל - Transliteration: Chebel - Phonetic: kheh'-bel - Definition: 1. a cord, rope, territory, band, company a. a rope, cord b. a measuring-cord or line c. a measured portion, lot, part, region d. a band or company 2. pain, sorrow, travail, pang a. pains of travail b. pains, pangs, sorrows 3. union 4. destruction - Origin: from H2254 - TWOT entry: 592b,595a - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: From H2254 ; 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: - band coast company cord country destruction line lot pain pang portion region rope snare sorrow tackling. Total KJV Occurrences: 62 • bands, 3 Psalm 119:61; Zechariah 11:7; Zechariah 11:14 • coast, 4 Joshua 19:29; Zephaniah 2:5; Zephaniah 2:6; Zephaniah 2:7 • company, 2 1 Samuel 10:5; 1 Samuel 10:10 • cord, 4 Joshua 2:15; Job 41:1; Ecclesiastes 12:6; Micah 2:5 • cords, 12 Esther 1:6; Job 36:8; Psalm 140:5; Proverbs 5:22; Isaiah 5:18; Isaiah 33:20; Jeremiah 38:6; Jeremiah 38:11; Jeremiah 38:12; Jeremiah 38:13; Ezekiel 27:24; Hosea 11:4 • country, 1 Deuteronomy 3:14 • destruction, 1 Micah 2:10 • line, 5 2 Samuel 8:2(2); Psalm 78:55; Amos 7:17; Zechariah 2:1 • lines, 2 2 Samuel 8:2; Psalm 16:6 • lot, 3 Deuteronomy 32:9; 1 Chronicles 16:18; Psalm 105:11 • pain, 1 Isaiah 66:7 • pangs, 2 Isaiah 26:17; Jeremiah 22:23 • portion, 2 Joshua 17:14; Joshua 19:9 • portions, 2 Joshua 17:5; Ezekiel 47:13 • region, 3 Deuteronomy 3:4; Deuteronomy 3:13; 1 Kings 4:13 • ropes, 3 2 Samuel 17:13; 1 Kings 20:31; 1 Kings 20:32 • snare, 1 Job 18:10 • sorrows, 10 2 Samuel 22:6; Job 21:17; Job 39:3; Psalm 18:4; Psalm 18:5; Psalm 116:3; Isaiah 13:8; Jeremiah 13:21; Jeremiah 49:24; Hosea 13:13 • tacklings, 1 Isaiah 33:23