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# חֹבְלִים

Biblical Hebrew

**union** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

union [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b9_5d1_5b0_5dc_5b4_5d9_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹבְלִים: pl. union [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b9_5d1_5b0_5dc_5b4_5d9_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. union (lit. binders) name of Zec.’s second symbolic staff Zc 11:7 and c. art. v 14. See חָבַל 1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Union (2).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 11:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.14/#tree)

וָֽאֶגְדַּע֙ אֶת־מַקְלִ֣י הַשֵּׁנִ֔י אֵ֖ת הַחֹֽבְלִ֑ים לְהָפֵר֙ אֶת־הָֽאַחֲוָ֔ה בֵּ֥ין יְהוּדָ֖ה וּבֵ֥ין יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and I.cut.up (et) staff my (the) second (et) (the) Union to break (et) the brotherhood between Judah and between Israel

*JPS 1917:* Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Binders, that the brotherhood between Judah and Israel might be broken.

[Zechariah 11:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.11.7/#tree)

וָֽאֶרְעֶה֙ אֶת־צֹ֣אן הַֽהֲרֵגָ֔ה לָכֵ֖ן עֲנִיֵּ֣י הַצֹּ֑אן וָאֶקַּֽח־לִ֞י שְׁנֵ֣י מַקְל֗וֹת לְאַחַ֞ד קָרָ֤אתִי נֹ֙עַם֙ וּלְאַחַד֙ קָרָ֣אתִי חֹֽבְלִ֔ים וָאֶרְעֶ֖ה אֶת־הַצֹּֽאן׃

*Word for word:* and I.shepherded (et) the.flock of.(the) slaughter therefore the.afflicted.\[ones\] of the.flock and I.took for myself two staffs (to) one I.called Favor and (to) one I.called Union and I.shepherded (et) the flock

*JPS 1917:* So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Graciousness, and the other I called Binders; and I fed the flock.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b9_5d1_5b0_5dc_5b4_5d9_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).