Harm
חֲבָלStrong’s H2257chaval (cha-val)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chaval is the Aramaic word usually translated “damage the” and “hurt”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”
Meaning
- Hurt, damage, injury
How it's translated
- damage the 1
- and hurt 1
- hurt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:23In contextThen was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.
- Ezra 4:22Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
Aramaic dictionary
חֲבָל chaval · harm
hurt, damage, injury
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “harm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
H'ARM, noun
- Injury; hurt; damage; detriment.“Do thyself no harm” Acts 16:28“He shall make amends for the harm he hath done in the holy thing” Leviticus 5:16
- Moral wrong; evil; mischief; wickedness; a popular sense of the word.
All definitions and other forms of “harm”
H'ARM, verb transitive
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to impair soundness of body, either animal or vegetable.
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.