Crime
חֲבוּלָאStrong’s H2248chavulah (cha-vu-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chavulah is the Aramaic word usually translated “hurtful act”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.”
Meaning
- Hurtful act, crime, harm, wicked deed, a wrong
How it's translated
- a hurtful act 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
חֲבוּלָא chavulah · crime
hurtful act, crime, harm, wicked deed, a wrong Aramaic of chab.bu.rah (חַבּוּרָה "wound" H2250)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crime” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRIME, noun
[Latin, Gr., to separate, to judge, to decree, to condemn.]
- An act which violates a law, divine or human; an act which violates a rule of moral duty; an offense against the laws of right, prescribed by God or man, or against any rule of duty plainly implied in those laws.
- Any great wickedness; iniquity; wrong.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.