Chabal means “destroy” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2254 — hemin (“our”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2254 חָבַל (chabal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chabal (khaw-bal') v. 1. to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind 2. specifically, by a pledge It has 23 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include pledge, destroy, and destroyed. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chabal (khaw-bal') v. 1. to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind 2. specifically, by a pledge 3. (figuratively) to pervert, destroy 4. also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) [a primitive root] KJV: X at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay &Š to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, X very, withhold.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2254. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to pledge
Usage: 1) to bind 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to bind 2) to take a pledge, lay to pledge 2a) (Qal) to hold by a pledge, take in pledge, hold in pledge 2b) (Niphal) to give a pledge, become pledged
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chabal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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23 indexed usages in Old Testament.
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2254.
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2254, grouped by book.
Chabal (Strong's H2254) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "destroy". chabal (khaw-bal') v. 1. to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind 2. specifically, by a pledge
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's H2254 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2254 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pledge, destroy, and destroyed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.