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# חֶבֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2267

**company** — used 7 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

company [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2267/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫בֶר: company, association, spell spell: [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2267/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] company, association, spell—abs. חָ֑בֶר Dt 18:11 + 2 times; cstr. חֶבֶר Ho 6:9; pl. חֲבָרִים ψ 58:6, sf. חֲבָרַיִךְ Is 47:9, 12;— company, band of (bad) priests Ho 6:9. association, society (abstr.), only in בֵּית חָ֑בֶר Pr 21:9 = 25:24 house of association, i.e. shared with a contentious woman (house in common, v. RVm VB). spell: as acc. cogn. c. חָבַר (q.v.) Dt 18:11 ψ 58:6. alone, of Babylonian magic Is 47:9, 12 (v. LenChald. Magic \[1878\]; Magie u. Wahrsagekunst, 1878; ScholzGötzendienst u. Zauberwesen, 1877, 80 ff. SayTBA iii. 145 ff. and Rel. Bab 396 ff., 440 ff.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of association (2); spells (2); a spell (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 58:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.6/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־יִ֭שְׁמַע לְק֣וֹל מְלַחֲשִׁ֑ים חוֹבֵ֖ר חֲבָרִ֣ים מְחֻכָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* which not it.listens to.\[the\] sound of.charmers \[one.who\].casts spells skillful

*JPS 1917:* Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.

[Proverbs 25:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.24/#tree)

ט֗וֹב שֶׁ֥בֶת עַל־פִּנַּת־גָּ֑ג מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים וּבֵ֥ית חָֽבֶר׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good to.dwell on \[the\].corner of.a.roof more than.a.woman of.contentions and a.house of.association

*JPS 1917:* It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than in a house in common with a contentious woman.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2267.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2267/): 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).