Crime
חֲבוּלָאStrong’s H2250chavulah (cha-vu-lah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavulah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wound”, “wound my” and “wounds my”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.”
Meaning
- Hurtful act, crime, harm, wicked deed, a wrong
How it's translated
- wound 2
- for wound my 1
- wounds my 1
- wounds of 1
- and welt 1
- and by wound his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 21:25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
- Proverbs 20:30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
- Isaiah 1:6From 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.
- Isaiah 53:5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.