Chabash means “saddle” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2280 — thaddaios in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2280 חָבַשׁ (chabash) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chabash (khaw-bash') v. 1. to wrap firmly (especially a turban, compress, or saddle) 2. (figuratively) to stop, to rule It has 30 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include bind, bindeth, saddle, girded, and saddled. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chabash (khaw-bash') v. 1. to wrap firmly (especially a turban, compress, or saddle) 2. (figuratively) to stop, to rule [a primitive root] KJV: bind (up), gird about, govern, healer, put, saddle, wrap about.
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to saddle/tie
Usage: 1) to tie, bind, bind on, bind up, saddle, restrain, bandage, govern 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to bind, bind on 1a2) to bind up 1b) (Piel) to bind, restrain 1c) (Pual) to be bound up
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chabash, 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.
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30 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
First 30 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2280.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
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Chabash (Strong's H2280) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "saddle". chabash (khaw-bash') v. 1. to wrap firmly (especially a turban, compress, or saddle) 2. (figuratively) to stop, to rule
This page currently indexes 30 linked usages for Strong's H2280 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2280 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bind, bindeth, saddle, girded, saddled, and gird. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.