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# סֹבֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5448

**burden** — 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

burden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5448/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֹ֫בֶל: n.m. burden [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5448/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 10:27 burden (always fig. of burden of tyranny);—only sf. סֻבֳּלוֹ, Is 10:27 (v. reff. on סֻבְּכוֹ, \[סְבֹךְ\]), עֹל ס׳ 9:3; 14:25 (in all conceived as burden resting on shoulders).

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, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: burden (2); its burden (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 9:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.3/#tree)

כִּ֣י ׀ אֶת־עֹ֣ל סֻבֳּל֗וֹ וְאֵת֙ מַטֵּ֣ה שִׁכְמ֔וֹ שֵׁ֖בֶט הַנֹּגֵ֣שׂ בּ֑וֹ הַחִתֹּ֖תָ כְּי֥וֹם מִדְיָֽן׃

*Word for word:* (dm) (et) the.yoke its.burden his and (et) the.staff its.shoulder his the.rod of the.\[one.who\].oppresses (in) it you.will.shatter like the.day of.Midian

*JPS 1917:* For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, Thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.

[Isaiah 10:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.27/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא יָס֤וּר סֻבֳּלוֹ֙ מֵעַ֣ל שִׁכְמֶ֔ךָ וְעֻלּ֖וֹ מֵעַ֣ל צַוָּארֶ֑ךָ וְחֻבַּ֥ל עֹ֖ל מִפְּנֵי־שָֽׁמֶן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be in the day (the) that it.will.be.removed burden its from on shoulder your and yoke its from on neck your and it.will.be.broken \[the\].yoke because of fatness

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5448.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5448/): 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).