Definition

a pawn (as security for debt)

Etymology

or (feminine) חֲבֹלָה; from H2254 (חָבַל);

Word family

• חָבַל châbal

How the KJV renders it

• pledge

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.