חוּב
chûwb · H2325 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to cause to owe, to be responsible for
To make someone liable to a penalty or hold them accountable for an outcome
ExamplesDaniel 1:10 The commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has allotted your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking gaunt in comparison to the youths who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ מֶלֶךְking 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- סָכַן çâkan · H5533 · to be of benefit, to be profitable, nurse
- The Hebrew סָכַן directly expresses the notion of endangerment or being in danger, making it a genuine semantic near-synonym to חוּב in its sense of 'making endanger.' Both terms operate within the semantic domain of causing or experiencing danger/jeopardy.
Contrasting words 2 words
- נָצַל nâtsal · H5337 · remove (violently), to pluck out, to snatch from
- The Hebrew נָצַל means 'to deliver, rescue, save from danger,' which is the direct lexical opposite of חוּב 'to make endanger.' One brings into danger while the other brings out of danger, making them genuine antonyms in the semantic domain of endangerment vs. deliverance.
- שָׁמַר shâmar · H8104 · to observe, to watch, to pay attention
- The Hebrew שָׁמַר means 'to keep safe, guard, protect,' which stands in opposition to חוּב 'to make endanger.' Protection and keeping safe are the opposite of causing endangerment, making these genuine lexical antonyms.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Non-Possess002003002018
- The verb describes putting someone at risk of forfeiting what is properly theirs, as the official fears that Daniel's gaunt appearance would make him "endanger" — and so risk losing — his own head before the king (Daniel 1:10).
- Bear002003003003
- The same act of endangering carries the sense of causing someone to bear liability or blame for an outcome, sharing the root's connection to being held answerable for a debt or fault.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2325. chub [חוּב] verb be guilty (Late Hebrew id., be under obligation, guilty; Aramaic…
[חוּב] verb be guilty (Late Hebrew id., be under obligation, guilty; Aramaic , חוּב, be defeated, guilty; Arabic be disappointed, fail; — Arabic , sin, is loan-word according to Bev Dan 1:10); —
Qal not in MT; but read perhaps חַבְתִּי (for סַבֹּתִי) 1Sa 22:22 I am guilty, so ᵑ6 Th We Dr.
Pi`el Perfect inculpate לַמֶּ֑לֶךְ אתרֿאֹשִׁי וְחִיַּבְתֶּם consecutive Dan 1:10 and inculpate my head with the king.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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