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# אוֹבִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H179

**Obil** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Obil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/179/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוֹבִיל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/179/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (? camel-driver), GFM (privately) queries whether, if genuine, name may not be theophoric (x + īl), poss. error for אַדְבְּאֵל; or Aramaic Aph. from יבל (which in any case may have influenced pronunciation).), overseer of David’s camels 1 Ch 27:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Obil (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 27:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.30/#tree)

וְעַל־הַ֨גְּמַלִּ֔ים אוֹבִ֖יל הַיִּשְׁמְעֵלִ֑י וְעַל־הָ֣אֲתֹנ֔וֹת יֶחְדְּיָ֖הוּ הַמֵּרֹנֹתִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the camels Obil the Ishmaelite and.\[was\] over the she-asses Jehdeiah the Meronothite

*JPS 1917:* and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/179/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).