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# סִבְלֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5450

**ear of wheat** — used 6 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

ear of wheat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5450/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִבְלָה: n.f. burden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5450/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. burden;—pl. cstr. סִבְלֹת מִצְרַיִם Ex 6:6 (P), of the heavy labours imposed on Isr. by Egyptian, v 7; sf. סִבְלֹתֵיכֶם 5:4 (J), סִבְלֹתָם 1:11; 5:5 (both J), 2:11 (E); (cf. ψ 81:7, סֵבֶל).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: their forced (3); the forced labor (2); your forced (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.5/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר פַּרְעֹ֔ה הֵן־רַבִּ֥ים עַתָּ֖ה עַ֣ם הָאָ֑רֶץ וְהִשְׁבַּתֶּ֥ם אֹתָ֖ם מִסִּבְלֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Pharaoh here! \[is\].many now the.people of the.land and you.have.caused.to.cease them from their.forced labor

*JPS 1917:* And Pharaoh said: 'Behold, the people of the land are now many, and will ye make them rest from their burdens?'

[Exodus 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.4/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לָ֚מָּה מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן תַּפְרִ֥יעוּ אֶת־הָעָ֖ם מִמַּֽעֲשָׂ֑יו לְכ֖וּ לְסִבְלֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to them the.king of.Egypt why? O.Moses and Aaron are.you.causing.to.refrain (et) the people from work(s) its go to your.forced labor

*JPS 1917:* And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5450.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5450/): 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).