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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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
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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
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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.
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Strong's first: Job 30:11Strong's last: Job 30:11
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Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
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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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