חבל

Probably cognate to the Arabic root خ ب ل (ḵ b l).

חֲבַל • (ḥăḇal)

1. to damage, to injure, to destroy

• “ḥbl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

From Proto-Semitic *ḥabl- (“rope”). Cognate with Arabic حَبْل (ḥabl).

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ħabl/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈħɛbɛl/, [ˈħɛːvɛl]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈχe.vel/

חֶבֶל • (khével) m (plural indefinite חֲבָלִים, singular construct חֶבֶל־, plural construct חֲבָלֵי־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. rope
2. (colloquial) clothesline

• חֶבֶל הַטַּבּוּר (khével hatabúr)

• H2256 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “חֶבֶל”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 206b
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 420a
• “חבל” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

From Aramaic חֲבַל (ḥăḇal, “to damage, injure, destroy, travail”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /χaˈval/

חֲבָל • (khavál) m [pattern: קְטוֹל]

1. pity, woe
2. too bad

   חבל שנגמרו כל הממתקים. ― khavál shenigmerú kol hamamtaqím ― It's too bad that all of the candies ran out.

• חֲבָל עַל הַזְּמַן (khavál 'al haz'mán)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

חִבֵּל • (khibél) (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of חיבל (khibél)

• חלב