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# נֵבֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5035

**bag** — used 11 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

bag [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5035/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵ֫בֶל: n.m. skin-bottle, skin jar, pitcher [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5035/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 13:12 1. skin-bottle, skin; 2. jar, pitcher;—נֵ֫בֶל abs. 1 S 10:5 +; cstr. v 3 + (on נֶבֶל v. Baer 1 S 1, 24);— skin of wine, נֵ֫בֶל יַיִן 1 S 1:24; 10:3 2 S 16:1, cf. also Je 13:12(×2); pl. נִבְלֵי יַיִן 1 S 25:18: fig. נִבְלֵי שָׁמַיִם Jb 38:37 i.e. clouds (‖ שְׁחָקִים). earthen jar, pitcher: fig. of connexions of Eliakim כְּלֵי נְבָלִים Is 22:24; נִבְלֵיהֶם יְנַפֵּ֑צוּ Je 48:12 (‖ כֵּלִים יָרִוקוּ) in fig. of Moab (cf. ψ 2:9); נִבְלֵי־חֶרֶשׂ La 4:2 sim. of men of Judah (‖ מַעֲשֵׂה יְדֵי יוֹצֵר); sim. of destruction of Judah, שֵׁבֶר נֵ֫בֶל יוֹצְרִים Is 30:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: jars (4); a jar (3); jar (2).

## In the verses

[Job 38:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.37/#tree)

מִֽי־יְסַפֵּ֣ר שְׁחָקִ֣ים בְּחָכְמָ֑ה וְנִבְלֵ֥י שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם מִ֣י יַשְׁכִּֽיב׃

*Word for word:* who? will.he.count \[the\].clouds by wisdom and.\[the\] jars of.heaven who? will.he.make.to.lie.down

*JPS 1917:* Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,

[Lamentations 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.2/#tree)

בְּנֵ֤י צִיּוֹן֙ הַיְקָרִ֔ים הַמְסֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּפָּ֑ז אֵיכָ֤ה נֶחְשְׁבוּ֙ לְנִבְלֵי־חֶ֔רֶשׂ מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יְדֵ֥י יוֹצֵֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* the.children of.Zion (the) precious \[who were\].weighed with.(the) pure gold how! they.are.considered to jars of.earthenware \[the\].work of.\[the\].hands of.a.potter

*JPS 1917:* The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5035.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5035/): 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).