[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%9C-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [נ](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/nun/)‎ / נֵטֶל‎

# נֵטֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5192

**burden** — 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

burden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5192/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵ֫טֶל: burden, weight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5192/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] burden, weight;—נ׳ cstr., of sand, Pr 27:3 (‖ כֹּבֶד).

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: the burden (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.3/#tree)

כֹּֽבֶד־אֶ֭בֶן וְנֵ֣טֶל הַח֑וֹל וְכַ֥עַס אֱ֝וִ֗יל כָּבֵ֥ד מִשְּׁנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].weight of.a.stone and the.burden of.(the) sand and.\[the\] provocation of.a.fool \[is\].heavy more than both.of.them

*JPS 1917:* A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5192.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5192/): 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).