To saddle/tie
חָבַשׁStrong’s H2280chavash (cha-vash)
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavash is the Hebrew word usually translated “saddled”, “saddle” and “bind on”. It appears in 30 verses of the 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.”
Meaning
- To tie, bind, bind on, bind up, saddle, restrain, bandage, govern(Qal) · (Piel) to bind, restrain · (Pual) to be bound up
How it's translated
- and he saddled 5
- saddled 2
- saddle 2
- and they saddled 2
- and you will bind on 1
- and he bound on 1
- let me saddle 1
- and she saddled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 6
- 1 Kings 4
- Job 4
- Isaiah 4
- 2 Samuel 3
- Genesis 1
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:9And 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.
- Leviticus 8:13And 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.
- Numbers 22:21And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
- Judges 19:10But 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.
- 2 Samuel 16:1And 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.
- 2 Samuel 17:23And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
חָבַשׁ chavash · to saddle/tie
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “saddle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SADDLE, noun
sad'l. [Latin sedeo, sedile.]
- A seat to be placed on a horse's back for the rider to sit on.
- Among seamen, a cleat or block of wood nailed on the lower yard-arms to retain the studding sail-booms in their place.
All definitions and other forms of “saddle”
SAD'DLE, verb intransitive
- To put a saddle on.“Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his ass” Genesis 22:3
- To load; to fix a burden on; as, to be saddled with the expense of bridges and highways.
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.