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# סֵבֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5447

**load** — used 3 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

load [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5447/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֵ֫בֶל: load, burden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5447/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] load, burden;—abs. Ne 4:11 ψ 81:7 (enforced burden); cstr. id., = burdensome labour (of corvée) 1 K 11:28.—Vid. also סַבָּל.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a burden (1); burden (1); the forced labor (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 81:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.7/#tree)

הֲסִיר֣וֹתִי מִסֵּ֣בֶל שִׁכְמ֑וֹ כַּ֝פָּ֗יו מִדּ֥וּד תַּעֲבֹֽרְנָה׃

*Word for word:* I.removed from a.burden shoulder his palms his from a.basket they.passed.away

*JPS 1917:* 'I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the basket.

[1 Kings 11:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.28/#tree)

וְהָאִ֥ישׁ יָרָבְעָ֖ם גִּבּ֣וֹר חָ֑יִל וַיַּ֨רְא שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה אֶת־הַנַּ֗עַר כִּֽי־עֹשֵׂ֤ה מְלָאכָה֙ ה֔וּא וַיַּפְקֵ֣ד אֹת֔וֹ לְכָל־סֵ֖בֶל בֵּ֥ית יוֹסֵֽף׃ס

*Word for word:* and the man Jeroboam \[was\].a.mighty.\[man\] of.strength and he.saw Solomon (et) the.young man (dm).that \[was\].doing (of).work he and he.appointed him to all the.forced.labor of.the.house of.Joseph

*JPS 1917:* And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labour of the house of Joseph.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5447.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5447/): 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).