chab.bu.rah denotes bodily injury, appearing in legal recompense, inflicted harm, physical affliction, and healing contexts.

The term consistently concerns bodily injury or its marks: it occurs in a recompense formula, an account of harm done, descriptions of bodily affliction, healing, and blows that affect the body.

1. Bodily injury and its effects · dominant

   In Exodus 21:25 the singular form occurs twice in the matched recompense clause, which the APB renders “wound for wound.” In Genesis 4:23 it is a construct singular in Lamech’s statement about having killed a man “for wounding me”; Isaiah 1:6 and Isaiah 53:5 place singular forms in depictions of bodily affliction and healing, while Proverbs 20:30 and Psalm 38:6 use plural construct forms in contexts of blows, bodily distress, and mourning. The APB in Proverbs 20:30 renders “Wounds and bruises,” whereas Psalm 38:6 does not isolate an English equivalent for the plural form.

   Exodus 21:25Genesis 4:23Isaiah 1:6Isaiah 53:5Proverbs 20:30Psalm 38:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the surrounding clauses with “wound,” “wounding,” and “wounds,” including the repeated formula in Exodus 21:25. Psalm 38:6 leaves the term’s specific English rendering unisolated.