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# סַבָּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5449

**burden-bearer** — used 5 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

burden-bearer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5449/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַבָּל: burden-bearer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5449/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] burden-bearer, (late);—only abs. ס׳ coll. Ne 4:4; 2 Ch 2:1, 17; mpl. abs. סַבָּלִים 2 Ch 34:13;—נֹשֵׂא סַבָּל 1 K 5:29 is certainly wrong; 𝔊 αἴροντες ἄρσιν, 𝔙 qui onera portabant, hence prob. נֹשֵׂא סֵ֫בֶל; \> אִישׁ סַבָּל, as ‖ 2 Ch 2:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: burden-bearer\[s\] (3); burden-bearers (1); the burden-bearer\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 5:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.29/#tree)

וַיְהִ֧י לִשְׁלֹמֹ֛ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף נֹשֵׂ֣א סַבָּ֑ל וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף חֹצֵ֥ב בָּהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.belonged to Solomon seventy thousand carrier\[s\] burden-bearer\[s\] and eighty thousand stonemason\[s\] in the.hill country

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

[Nehemiah 4:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.4.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.4.4/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוּדָ֗ה כָּשַׁל֙ כֹּ֣חַ הַסַּבָּ֔ל וְהֶעָפָ֖ר הַרְבֵּ֑ה וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ לֹ֣א נוּכַ֔ל לִבְנ֖וֹת בַּחוֹמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.said Judah it.has.failed the.strength of the.burden-bearer\[s\] and the debris \[is\].much and we not we.will.be.able to rebuild (on) the wall

*JPS 1917:* And Judah said: 'The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5449.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5449/): 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).