כֶּ֫בֶל
bond
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3525 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Psalms 2 verses
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.
כבל (kebel) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “bond.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Psalms dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. Scripture first uses it in Psalms 105:18. Sharing its root, it stands alongside כרבל and כבול. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3525 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
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: Fetters 2×
- American Standard Version: Fetters 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shackles 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shackle 1×, Shackles of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3525 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3525 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3525 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3525 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- bond(s), fetter(s)
Word origin
Origin: from an unused root meaning to twine or braid 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.
כָּבַל
- [to press, to impede, whence כֶּבֶל the foot-chain; denom. כָּבַל] to chain. Gen. R. s. 87 כּוֹבַלְתְּךָ אני I have the power to put thee in chains. Tanḥ. Thazr. 8 מביא וכוֹבְלוֹ … he orders chains and chains him.—Part. pass. כָּבוּל, f. כְּבוּלָה, pl. כְּבוּלוֹת tied, prevented, esp. sheep prevented from conceiving by having their tails tied down. Sabb. V, 2 רחלות יוצאות … כ׳ ewes may be led out (on the Sabbath) … tied up; Tosef. ib. IV (V), 1 כ׳ שלא יעלה עליהן זכר. Sabb. 54ᵃ מאי כ׳ שכּוֹבְלִין אליה וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. שמְכַבְּלִין) what is k’buloth? They tie their tails downward &c. Ib. מאי משמע דהאי כבול וכ׳ where is the evidence that kabul has the meaning of sterility? (Answ. ref. to I Kings IX, 13, v. next w.); Y. ib. V, 7ᵇ bot. e.g. 1 Kings 9:13
- same, v. supra.—Part. pass. מְכוּבָּל. Sabb. l. c. the district was called Cabul, שהיו בה ב"א שמְכוּבָּלִין בכסף וכ׳ because there were people there who were chained with silver and gold.
כְּבַל
- , part. pass. כְּבִיל, f. כְּבִילָא impeded, detained. Targ. Koh. XII, 4 ריגלך כְּבִילָן וכ׳ thy feet are detained from going out &c. (h. text סגרו).
- same; part. pass. מְכַבַּל, f. מְכַבְּלָא tied up, (cmp. עצר) sterile. Sabb. 54ᵃ (ref. to I Kings IX, 13, v. preced.; v. חוּמְטוֹן) ואמרו אינשי ארעא מ׳ דלא עבדא פרי (Ms. O. מְכַבַּלְתָּא) and people say, it is a tied up land, which bears no fruits. e.g. 1 Kings 9:13
כֶּבֶל
- preced. wds.), pl. כְּבָלִים, כְּבָלִין foot-chains, irons. Gen. R. s. 91 ליתן עליהם כ׳ to put them in chains. Tanḥ. Thazr. 8, v. כָּבַל. Deut. R. s. 4 כ׳ של ברזל iron chains, opp. מונייק של זהב. Tosef. Ab. Zar. II, 4 אין מוכרין … ולא כ׳ (ed. Zuck. כּוֹבְלִין) we must not sell them torturing blocks or irons.—Sabb. VI, 4 כ׳ טמאין וכ׳ a woman’s ankle-chains are fit for levitical uncleanness &c. (contrad. to בירית). Y. ib. VI, 8ᵇ, v. בֵּירִית; Bab. ib. 63ᵇ. Ib. עשו להן כ׳ וכ׳ they made for them ankle-bands and put a chain between, that their steps may not be wide; 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 2 distinct written forms H3525 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַ/כֶּ֣בֶל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 105:18 | 1 |
| בְּ/כַבְלֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 149:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3525, 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.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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