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# טָבְאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2870

**Tabeal** — 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

Tabeal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2870/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָֽבְאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2870/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Aramaic; = God is good, v. טוֹב; according to Wkl (v. infr.) God is wise, cf. Aramaic ܛܰܒ, Ethiopic ጠበበ be wise; Arabic طَبَّ act as physician, طَبٌّ expert)—Persian officer in Samaria Ezr 4:7, 𝔊 Ταβεηλ.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.7/#tree)

וּבִימֵ֣י אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֗שְׂתָּא כָּתַ֨ב בִּשְׁלָ֜ם מִתְרְדָ֤ת טָֽבְאֵל֙ וּשְׁאָ֣ר כְּנָוֺתָ֔יו עַל־אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרָ֑ס וּכְתָב֙הַֽנִּשְׁתְּוָ֔ן כָּת֥וּב אֲרָמִ֖ית וּמְתֻרְגָּ֥ם אֲרָמִֽית׃פ

*Word for word:* and in the.days of.Artaxerxes he.wrote Bishlam Mithredath Tabeel and the.rest his.associates his to Artaxerxes the.king of.Persia and the.writing of the.letter \[was\].written Aramaic and \[it.was\].translated Aramaic

*JPS 1917:* And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Aramaic character, and set forth in the Aramaic tongue.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2870.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2870/): 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).