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# סָבַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5445

**bear a heavy load** — used 9 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

bear a heavy load [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5445/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָבַל: vb. bear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5445/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bear a heavy load (NH id.; Ar. סְבַל, ܣܒܰܠ id.; cf. also sub זבל p. 259 b supr.);— Pf. 3 ms. sf. סְבָלָם Is 53:4; 1 pl. סָבָ֑לְנוּ La 5:7;—Impf. 3 ms. יִסְבֹּל Is 53:11; 1 s. אֶסְבֹּל 46:4; 3 mpl. sf. יִסְבְּלֻהוּ 46:7; Inf. cstr. לִסְבֹּל Gn 49:15;—bear a load, וַיֵּט שִׁכְמוֹ לִסְבֹּל Gn 49:15 (poem in J; of Issachar under fig. of ass); of carrying an idol Is 46:7; of י׳ carrying Isr. v 4, 4; servant of י׳ carrying load of pain 53:4 and guilt v 11; Isr. bearing iniquities of fathers La 5:7. Pt. pl. מְסֻבָּלִים laden, ψ 144:14 (i.e. pregnant Ges Hi Ew Hup-Now Che al.; perhaps better fatted EpsteinZAW 1913, 226–7 𝔊 Aq Symm 𝔙 𝔙). Impf. וְיִסְתַּבֵּל הֶחָגָב Ec 12:5 stuffs itself, grows fat 𝔊 𝔙 (v. חָגָב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: I will carry (2); \[will be\] loaded (1); carry a load (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 5:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.7/#tree)

אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּ חָֽטְאוּ֙ וְאֵינָ֔ם וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ עֲוֺנֹתֵיהֶ֥ם סָבָֽלְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* ancestors our they.sinned and they.\[are\] not and we iniquities their we.have.carried

*JPS 1917:* Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

[Psalms 144:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.14/#tree)

אַלּוּפֵ֗ינוּ מְֽסֻבָּ֫לִ֥ים אֵֽין־פֶּ֭רֶץ וְאֵ֣ין יוֹצֵ֑את וְאֵ֥ין צְ֝וָחָ֗ה בִּרְחֹבֹתֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* cattle(s) our \[will.be\].loaded there.\[will\].not.\[be\] a.breach and there.\[will\].not.\[be\] abortion and there.\[will\].not.\[be\] an.outcry in our.open places

*JPS 1917:* Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5445.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5445/): 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).