Words the Bible translates as cord
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ḥevelחֶבֶלa cord or rope: a length of twisted fiber used to bind, lift, hold, or measure
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- a measured portion of land: an allotted territory or region, marked off as if by a measuring line
- a band or company: a group of people bound together as a unit
- pangs: the sharp, gripping pains of childbirth, used as an image of sudden anguish
- tiqvahתִּקְוָהcord: a length of rope or line.
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- hope: the expectation of a future good, and the thing hoped for itself.
- avotעֲבֹתa braided cord: a rope of several strands twisted together, used to bind, harness, or fasten
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- interwoven foliage: the dense, tangled boughs at the crown of a great tree
- qavקַוa measuring line: the taut cord a builder or surveyor stretches to mark out, size up, or apportion something
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- mocking nonsense syllables ("qav"): the babble drunken leaders throw at the prophet, which God then throws back as the sound of judgment
- a disputed word in Psalm 19:4: possibly the sound the heavens send out across the earth, though the text may instead mean "line" or be a copying slip for "voice"
- patilפָּתִילa twisted cord: a thin strand of spun or braided fiber, used to tie, carry, mark, or measure
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- fastened tight: said of a covering sealed down onto a jar so that nothing can pass in or out
- metarמֵיתָרa cord that works by being pulled tight: the rope that holds a tent up, or the string of a bow.
- ḥutחוּטa thread: one thin spun strand of wool or flax, and by extension a light cord or a measuring line
- moshekhahמֹשֶׁכֶתcordnot studied yet
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