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# הֶבֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1893

**Abel** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Abel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1893/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֶ֫בֶל²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1893/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (perhaps i.q. Assyrian ablu, son, COTGloss. cf. also WeSkizzen iii. 70: der. from I. הֶבֶל not prob.) second son of Adam Gn 4:2(×2), 4(×2), 8(×2), 9, 25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abel (7); \[is\] Abel (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 4:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.9/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־קַ֔יִן אֵ֖י הֶ֣בֶל אָחִ֑יךָ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א יָדַ֔עְתִּי הֲשֹׁמֵ֥ר אָחִ֖י אָנֹֽכִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to Cain where? \[is\].Abel brother your and he.said not I.know the keeper? my.brother my \[am\].I

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Where is Abel thy brother?' And he said: 'I know not; am I my brother's keeper?'

[Genesis 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.2/#tree)

וַתֹּ֣סֶף לָלֶ֔דֶת אֶת־אָחִ֖יו אֶת־הָ֑בֶל וַֽיְהִי־הֶ֙בֶל֙ רֹ֣עֵה צֹ֔אן וְקַ֕יִן הָיָ֖ה עֹבֵ֥ד אֲדָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and she.repeated to give.birth.to (et) brother his (et) Abel and he.was Abel a.herdsman of.sheep and Cain he.was \[one.who\].tilled \[the\].ground

*JPS 1917:* And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1893.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1893/): 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).