Strong's Hebrew · H2254
חָבַל
châbal · khaw-bal'
[idiom] at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, [idiom] very, withhold.
Definition
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)
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 27 times in Scripture
“We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.”
““My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.”
“The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.”
“Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.”
“Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.”
“If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,”
“For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).