chavash · bind; saddle

What it means

chavash (חָבַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bind; saddle”.

Bind, tie on; saddle an animal; bandage a wound.

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. To fasten something firmly, or saddle an animal to ride it.
2. To wrap a wound or broken bone with bandages so it heals.
3. To hold command, like one who holds the reins.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• saddled ×10
• bind ×7
• bound ×5
• Saddle ×3
• binds up ×3
• He bandages ×1
• I wrapped you ×1
• govern ×1
• one who binds wounds ×1
• was wrapped ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×6
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×4
• Ezekiel×7
• Hosea×1
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 22:3

  Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he rose and went to the place that Elohim had told him.

• Exodus 29:9

  You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them, and the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

• Leviticus 8:13

  Moses brought near the sons of Aaron, clothed them with tunics, girded them with sashes, and bound caps on them, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 22:21

  So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.

• Judges 19:10

  But the man was not willing to spend the night; he arose and went and came as far as opposite Jebus, that is Jerusalem; and with him were a pair of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.

• 2 Samuel 16:1

  David had gone on a little from the summit, and there was Ziba, the young man of Mephibosheth, to meet him, with a pair of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

• 2 Samuel 17:23

  When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled the donkey and got up and went to his house, to his city. He gave orders to his house and hanged himself and died, and he was buried in the tomb of his father.

• 2 Samuel 19:26

  He said, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said, ‘Let me saddle for myself the donkey, and I will ride on it and go with the king,’ for your servant is lame.

• 1 Kings 2:40

  And Shimei rose and saddled his donkey and went to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves. And Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath.

• 1 Kings 13:13

  He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him, and he rode on it.

• 1 Kings 13:23

  And it happened after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

• 1 Kings 13:27

  He spoke to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it.

• 2 Kings 4:24

  She saddled the donkey and said to her young man, “Drive and go; do not hold back the riding for me unless I tell you.”

• Job 5:18

  For he causes pain and binds up; he shatters, and his hands heal.

• Job 28:11

  He bandages the weeping of the rivers, and what is hidden he brings out to the light.

• Job 34:17

  Can even one who hates justice govern? Or will you declare wicked the righteous mighty one?

• Job 40:13

  Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the hidden place.

• Psalms 147:3

  He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

• 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 3:7

  he will lift up his voice on that day, saying, “I will not be one who binds wounds; in my house there is no bread and no cloak; you shall not make me ruler of the people.”

• Isaiah 30:26

  And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, in the day when YHWH binds up the fracture of his people and heals the wound of his blow.

• Isaiah 61:1

  The spirit of Adonai YHWH is upon me, because YHWH has anointed me to bring good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and to the prisoners opening of the prison,

• Ezekiel 16:10

  And I clothed you with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather, and I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

• Ezekiel 24:17

  Groan in silence; mourning for the dead you shall not make; your headdress bind on yourself, and your sandals put on your feet, and you shall not cover your mustache, and bread of men you shall not eat.”

• Ezekiel 27:24

  They were your traders in luxurious things, in cloaks of blue and embroidery, and in chests of colored fabrics, bound with cords and firm, in your market.

• Ezekiel 30:21

  “Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt I have broken; and look, it has not been bound up to give it remedies, to put a bandage to bind it up, to strengthen it to grasp the sword.

• Ezekiel 34:4

  The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and the broken you have not bound up, and the strayed you have not brought back, and the lost you have not sought; but with force you have ruled them, and with harshness.

• Ezekiel 34:16

  The lost I will seek, and the strayed I will bring back, and the broken I will bind up, and the sick I will strengthen; but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them with judgment.

• Hosea 6:1

  “Come, and let us return to YHWH; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck, and he will bind us up.

• Jonah 2:5

  The waters encompassed me up to the soul; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

And 3 more times.