Joshua 2:15
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
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Cord
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Micah 2:5
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
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חֶבֶל
chebel · kheh'-bel
4 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences
a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
Strong's KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
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Strong's first: Joshua 2:15Strong's last: Micah 2:5
Open full H2256 profile →חוּט
chûwṭ · khoot
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a string; by implication, a measuring tape
Strong's KJV usage: cord, fillet, line, thread.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 4:12Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 4:12
Open full H2339 profile →יֶתֶר
yether · yeh'-ther
1 times translated as this KJV form101 total Strong's occurrences
properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder; also a small rope (as hanging free)
Strong's KJV usage: abundant, cord, exceeding, excellancy(-ent), what they leave, that hath left, plentifully, remnant, residue, rest, string, with.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 30:11Strong's last: Job 30:11
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H2339
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
H2256
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
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cord
CORD, noun [Latin Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.]
1. A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Rahab let down the spies by a cord through the window. Joshua 2:15.
2. A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line. The cord is a pile containing 128 cubic feet; or a pile eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad.
3. In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psalms 129:4.
The cords of sin are bad habits, or the consequences of sin. Proverbs 5:22.
The cords of a man are the fair, gentle or natural means of alluring men to obedience. Hosea 11.
The cords of vanity are worldly vanities and pleasures, profit or preferment; or vain and deceitful arguments and pretenses, which draw men to sin. Isaiah 5:18.
To stretch a line or cord about a city, is to level it, or utterly to destroy it. Lamentations 2:1.
The cords of a tent denote stability. To loosen or break the cords, is to weaken or destroy; to lengthen the cords, is to enlarge. Job 30:11. Isaiah 5:184. Jeremiah 10:20.
CORD, verb transitive
1. To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords.
2. To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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