Definition

harm (personal or pecuniary)

Etymology

(Aramaic) from H2255 (חֲבַל);

Word family

• חֲבַל chăbal

How the KJV renders it

• damage
• 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.