chabura · bruise

What it means

chabura (חַבּוּרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bruise”.

Blow, bruise, welt.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A mark left by a blow.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bruise ×3
• wounds ×2
• striking me ×1
• wound ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2

• Genesis 4:23

  And Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my saying: for a man I have killed for wounding me, and a young man for striking me.

• Exodus 21:25

  burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

• Psalms 38:5

  My wounds stink, they fester because of my folly.

• Proverbs 20:30

  The wounds of a blow cleanse away evil, and lashes, the inner rooms of the belly.

• Isaiah 1:6

  From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wound and bruise and fresh blow; they have not been pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.

• Isaiah 53:5

  But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; the correction of our peace was upon him, and by his wound we were healed.

And 1 more times.