חָבַשׁ
cha.vash
to saddle/tie
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word חָבַשׁ (cha.vash) has a distinct meaning of "to saddle" or "tie." This action typically involves attaching or securing something, such as a saddle to an animal or a load to a carrier. The verb's physical nature indicates its semantic domain as "Physical Action." This word appears 33 times in the Bible, suggesting its importance and range of usage. It does not seem to convey a specific emotional or abstract connotation, but rather a concrete, action-oriented concept. The consistent application of חָבַשׁ throughout the Bible highlights its functional significance, particularly in various agricultural, travel, and warfare contexts.
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Occurrences in Scripture
33 total occurrences across the text
For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
Job 28:11He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
Job 34:17Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—
Job 40:13Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
Psalms 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
Isaiah 3:7In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.”
Isaiah 30:26Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
Isaiah 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Ezekiel 16:10I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sealskin sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 24:17Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”
Ezekiel 27:24These were your traders in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.
Ezekiel 30:21“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.
Ezekiel 30:21“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.
Ezekiel 34:4You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.
Ezekiel 34:16“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’
Hosea 6:1“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
Jonah 2:5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
Genesis 22:3Abraham rose early in the morning, and 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 rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
Exodus 29:9You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Leviticus 8:13Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with tunics, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Numbers 22:21Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
Judges 19:10But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him.
2 Samuel 16:1When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.
2 Samuel 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
2 Samuel 19:26He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame.
1 Kings 2:40Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.
1 Kings 13:13He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.
1 Kings 13:13He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.
1 Kings 13:23After he had eaten bread, and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.
1 Kings 13:27He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.
1 Kings 13:27He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.
2 Kings 4:24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”