Strong's Concordance H2256

Original Word: חֶבֶל
Transliteration: chebel
Phonetic Spelling: kheh'-bel
or חֵבֶל; from H2254; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin; band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.

Usages throughout the bible

Hosea 13:13 - The sorrows H2256 of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

Amos 7:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; H2256 and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

Micah 2:5 - Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord H2256 by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

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. H2256

Zephaniah 2:5 - Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, H2256 the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 2:6 - And the sea coast H2256 shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

Zephaniah 2:7 - And the coast H2256 shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

Zechariah 2:1 - I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line H2256 in his hand.