chaval · take in pledge; destroy

What it means

chaval (חָבַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “take in pledge; destroy”.

Take something in pledge, as a guarantee for a debt. In other passages, destroy, or be in the pains of labor.

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 hold something until a debt is paid.
2. To do harm or ruin something; also to act very wickedly.
3. To feel the pains of a woman about to give birth.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• take ×5
• ruin ×3
• We have acted very badly ×2
• destroy ×2
• take a pledge from him ×2
• was in labor ×2
• you ever take in pledge ×2
• broken ×1
• destroys ×1
• do harm again ×1
• others ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×3
• Nehemiah×2
• Job×5
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1

• Exodus 22:26

  If you ever take in pledge the cloak of your neighbor, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

• Deuteronomy 24:6

  No one shall take in pledge a handmill or an upper millstone, for he would be taking in pledge a life.

• Deuteronomy 24:17

  You shall not pervert the justice due the resident alien or the orphan, and you shall not take in pledge the garment of a widow.

• Nehemiah 1:7

  We have acted very badly against you and have not kept the commandments and the statutes and the rules that you commanded Moses your servant.

• Job 17:1

  My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished; the graves are for me.

• Job 22:6

  For you took pledges from your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

• Job 24:3

  The donkey of the orphans they drive away; they take in pledge the ox of the widow.

• Job 24:9

  They seize the orphan from the breast, and against the poor they take pledges.

• Job 34:31

  For has anyone said to El, ‘I have borne my punishment; I will not do harm again;

• Psalms 7:14

  Look, he conceives wickedness, becomes pregnant with suffering, and gives birth to a lie.

• Proverbs 13:13

  Whoever despises the word will be ruined, but whoever fears the commandment will be rewarded.

• Proverbs 20:16

  Take his garment, for he has become surety for a stranger, and for a foreign woman take a pledge from him.

• Proverbs 27:13

  Take his garment, for he has become surety for a stranger; and for a foreign woman take a pledge from him.

• Ecclesiastes 5:6

  Do not let your mouth bring your flesh into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was an error. Why should Elohim be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

• Song of Songs 2:15

  Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin vineyards, and our vineyards are in blossom.

• Song of Songs 8:5

  Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor.

• Isaiah 10:27

  And it will happen on that day that his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be destroyed because of fatness.

• Isaiah 13:5

  They come from a land far away, from the end of the heavens, YHWH and the instruments of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

• Isaiah 32:7

  And the cheat, his weapons are evil; he plans schemes to ruin the afflicted with words of falsehood, even when the needy speaks what is just.

• Isaiah 54:16

  Look, I have created the craftsman who blows the coals in the fire and brings out a tool for his work; and I have created the destroyer to ruin.

• Ezekiel 18:16

  and does not oppress anyone, does not take a pledge, and commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing;

• Amos 2:8

  And on garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and the wine of those who have been fined they drink in the house of their god.

• Micah 2:10

  Arise and go, for this is not the resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, and with grievous destruction.

And 4 more times.