Pain
חֵ֫בֶלStrong’s H2256chevel (che-vel)
Appears in 60 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chevel is the Hebrew word usually translated “region of”, “cords of” and “ropes”. It appears in 60 verses of the Old Testament.
“I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.”
Meaning
- This name means a cord, territory, region
- Pain, sorrow, travail, pangpains of travail · pains, pangs, sorrows
- Union
- Destruction
- A cord, rope, territory, band, companya rope, cord · a measuring-cord or line · a measured portion, lot, part, region · a band or company
How it's translated
- region of 6
- cords of 4
- and ropes 3
- with cords of 3
- with ropes 3
- a company of 2
- with measuring-line 2
- portion of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 8
- Jeremiah 7
- Isaiah 6
- Joshua 5
- Job 5
- Deuteronomy 4
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 11:7In contextAnd I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
- Zechariah 11:14In contextThen I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
- Deuteronomy 3:4And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:13And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
- Deuteronomy 3:14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
- Deuteronomy 32:9For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֶ֫בֶל chevel · Mahalab
This name means a cord, territory, region Another name of ach.lav (אַחְלָב "Ahlab" H0303)
חֵ֫בֶל chevel · pain
1) pain, sorrow, travail, pang 1a) pains of travail 1b) pains, pangs, sorrows
חֹבְלִים chovlim · union
union
חֶ֫בֶל chevel · destruction
destruction
חֶ֫בֶל chevel · cord
1) a cord, rope, territory, band, company 1a) a rope, cord 1b) a measuring-cord or line 1c) a measured portion, lot, part, region 1d) a band or company § destruction
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PAIN, noun
[Latin paena; Gr. penalty, and pain labor.]
- An uneasy sensation in animal bodies, of any degree from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from pressure, tension or spasm, separation of parts by violence, or any derangement of functions.
- Labor; work; toil; laborious effort.
- Labor; toilsome effort; task; in the singular. [Not now used.]
- Uneasiness of mind; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude for the future; grief, sorrow for the past.
All definitions and other forms of “pain”
- The throws or distress of travail or childbirth.“She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her” 1 Samuel 4:19
- Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime.
PAIN, verb transitive
- To make uneasy or to disquiet; to cause uneasy sensations in the body, of any degree of intensity; to make simply uneasy, or to distress, to torment.
- To afflict; to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress.“I am pained at my very heart” Jeremiah 4:19
- Reciprocally, to pain one's self, to labor; to make toilsome efforts. [Little used.]
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.