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# חִבֵּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2260

**mast** — 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

mast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2260/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִבֵּל: mast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2260/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] prob. mast (as corded or roped in place; denom. from חֶבֶל)—only in sim. of drunken man שֹׁכֵב בְּרֹאֹשׁ ח׳ Pr 23:34 (opp. שֹׁכֵב בְּלֶב־יָם) i.e. in the lookout-basket at the mast-head, cf. Thes in carchesio.—𝔊 𝔙 read חֹבֵל.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of a mast (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 23:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.34/#tree)

וְ֭הָיִיתָ כְּשֹׁכֵ֣ב בְּלֶב־יָ֑ם וּ֝כְשֹׁכֵ֗ב בְּרֹ֣אשׁ חִבֵּֽל׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.be like \[one.who\].lies.down in.\[the\] heart of.\[the\].sea and like \[one.who\].lies.down at.\[the\] top of.a.mast

*JPS 1917:* Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2260.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2260/): 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).