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# חֹבֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2259

**sailor** — used 5 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

sailor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2259/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹבֵל: n.m. sailor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2259/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sailor (denom. from חֶבֶל; i.e. rope-puller)—חֹבְלֵי הַיָּם Ez 27:29; חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ Ez 27:8, 27, 28; coll. רַב הַחֹבֵל i.e. the captain Jon 1:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sailors (2); the sailor\[s\] (1); the sailors (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 27:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.28/#tree)

לְק֖וֹל זַעֲקַ֣ת חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּ מִגְרֹשֽׁוֹת׃

*Word for word:* to the.sound of.the.outcry your.sailors your they.will.quake pasturelands

*JPS 1917:* At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the waves shall shake.

[Ezekiel 27:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.8/#tree)

יֹשְׁבֵ֤י צִידוֹן֙ וְאַרְוַ֔ד הָי֥וּ שָׁטִ֖ים לָ֑ךְ חֲכָמַ֤יִךְ צוֹר֙ הָ֣יוּ בָ֔ךְ הֵ֖מָּה חֹבְלָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* the.inhabitants of.Sidon and Arvad they.were \[those.who\].row for you your.skillful \[people\] O.Tyre they.were in you they sailors \[were\].your

*JPS 1917:* The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2259.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2259/): 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).