# חָבַל (chaval) Israeli respelling: cha-val. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H2254. 23 Old Testament occurrences. to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) King James renderings: [idiom] at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, [idiom] very, withhold. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chaval-h2254 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 22:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/26) — If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: - [Deuteronomy 24:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/6) — No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge. - [Deuteronomy 24:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/17) — Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge: - [Nehemiah 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/1/7) — We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst… - [Job 17:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/1) — My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. - [Job 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/6) — For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. - [Job 24:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/3) — They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. - [Job 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/9) — They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. - [Job 34:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/31) — Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: - [Psalms 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/14) — Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. - [Proverbs 13:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/13) — Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. - [Proverbs 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/16) — Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. - [Proverbs 27:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/13) — Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. - [Ecclesiastes 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/6) — Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at t… - [Song of Solomon 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/2/15) — Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. - [Song of Solomon 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/5) — Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought t… - [Isaiah 10:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/27) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the y… - [Isaiah 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/5) — They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. - [Isaiah 32:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/7) — The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh r… - [Isaiah 54:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/16) — Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created… - [Ezekiel 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/16) — Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and h… - [Amos 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/2/8) — And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. - [Micah 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/10) — Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.