Strong’s H2255 · Hebrew

חֲבַל
chăbal
khab-al'

Definition

to ruin

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H2254 (חָבַל);

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • destroy
  • hurt

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.