חַבּוּרָה
wound
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (43%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 2 times (29%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 2 times (29%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2250 appears — 6 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Exodus 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Proverbs 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 1:6 וְ/חַבּוּרָ֖ה conj + n c fs From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: Wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
- Isaiah 53:5 וּ/בַ/חֲבֻרָת֖/וֹ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“wound” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun חבורה (chabbûwrâh). Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 4:23. It turns up in 6 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. It clusters with חבר, חבר and חבר under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2250 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 33%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Stripe 2×
- American Standard Version: Stripe 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stripe 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bruise 3×, Wounds 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2250 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2250 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2250 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2250 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- bruise, stripe, wound, blow
Word origin
[חַבֻּרָה, חֲבֻרָה] n.f. stripe, blow;—abs. חַבּ׳ Is 1:6 + 2 times; sf. חַבֻּרָתִי Gn 4:23; חֲבֻרָתוֹ Is 53:5; pl. cstr. חַבֻּרוֹת Pr 20:30; sf. חַבּוּרֹתָ֑י ψ 38:6:—stripe, blow, stroke, Gn 4:23 my blow, i.e. for striking me (J), cf. Ex 21:25(×2) (JE), also of injury to land of Judah (under fig. of human body) Is 1:6 (all ‖ פֶּצַע, v. infr.); of blows (sg. coll.) inflicted on suffering servant of י׳ Is 53:5; (pl.) ψ 38:6, חַבֻּרוֹת פֶּצַע Pr 20:30, i.e. blows that cut in (‖ מַכּוֹת).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חבר (châbar) (H2266) — to bind together.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲבוּרָה I
- (חָבַר) company, association, party; esp. those united for eating the Passover lamb in company (Ex. XII, 4); the colleagues at school (v. חָבֵר); the college. Pes. VII, 3, a. fr. בני ח׳ the members of a Passover party. Ib. אם חֲבוּרַת כהנים if it is a party consisting of priests only. Y. ib. X, 37ᵈ top שלא יהא עומד מח׳ זו וכ׳ that one should not rise from one party and join another; Bab. ib. 119ᵇ, v. אֶפִּיקוֹמָן; a. fr.—Ber. 9ᵇ במעמד כל הח׳ in the presence of the whole college. Ned. 81ᵃ הזהרו בח׳ beware of disregarding the benefits of collegiate studies. Lev. R. s. 2, end חֲבוּרָתוֹ של משה the disciples of Moses; a. fr.—Y. Dem. II, 23ᵃ top דוחין אותו מחבורתו, v. חֲבֵירוּת.—Pl. חֲנוּרוֹת. Pes. IX, 10; a. fr. e.g. Exodus 12:4
חַבּוּרָה
- a mark of violence, wound, discoloring. B. Kam. VIII, 1 מקום שאינו עושה ח׳ a spot on which no wound is made by burning (e.g. on the nail). Snh. XI, 1 (85ᵇ) עד שיעשה בהן ח׳ unless by striking them he creates a wound; Y. ib. XI, beg. 30ᵃ באיזו ח׳ כחַבּוּרַת שבת כח׳ נזקין what wound is meant here? One the creating of which would be a Sabbath offence (discoloring), or one of the kind required for claiming damages?; Mekh. Mishp., N’zikin, s. 5 מכה שיש בה ח׳ (in order to be punishable with death) it must be a beating which makes a wound (or a sore). Sabb. 107ᵇ ח׳ שאינה חוזרת a permanent discoloring, Ib. מניין לח׳ שאינה וכ׳ whence is it proven that by ḥabburah a permanent (not a momentary) discoloring is meant?— Keth. 3ᵇ עושה ח׳ he makes a wound (by tearing the hymen). Ib. 5ᵇ מקלקל בח׳ destroying by making a hole, מתקן בח׳ amending by &c.; a. v. fr.—Pl. חבּוּרוֹת. Gen. R. s. 23; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H2250 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/חַבּוּרָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 1:6 | 1 |
| וּ/בַ/חֲבֻרָת֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 53:5 | 1 |
| חַבֻּר֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Proverbs 20:30 | 1 |
| חַבּוּרָ֕ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 21:25 | 1 |
| חַבּוּרָֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 21:25 | 1 |
| חַבּוּרֹתָ֑/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 38:5 | 1 |
| לְ/חַבֻּרָתִֽ/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 4:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2250, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- חבר cheber H2267 association
- חבר chăbar H2269 companion
- חבר châbêr H2270 companion
- חבר chabbâr H2271 partner
- חברברה chăbarburâh H2272 stripe
- חברת chôbereth H2279 joining
- מחברת machbereth H4225 joint
- מחברה mᵉchabbᵉrâh H4226 clamp
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
