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# סַנְבַלַּט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5571

**Sanballat** — used 10 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

Sanballat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5571/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַנְבַּלַּט: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5571/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (so Baer; van d. H. Ginsb סַנְבַלַּט) n.pr.m. leader of Samaritan opponents of Nehemiah: Ne 2:10, 19; 3:33; 4:1; 6:1, 2, 5, 12, 14; 13:28; (Bab., = Sin-uballiṭ, Sin gave life SchrCOT Ne 2:10).

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sanballat (10).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 6:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.5/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ אֵלַ֨י סַנְבַלַּ֜ט כַּדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּ֛ה פַּ֥עַם חֲמִישִׁ֖ית אֶֽת־נַעֲר֑וֹ וְאִגֶּ֥רֶת פְּתוּחָ֖ה בְּיָדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent to me Sanballat according to the.manner (the) this a.time fifth (et) servant his and a.letter open \[was\].in hand his

*JPS 1917:* Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;

[Nehemiah 6:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.12/#tree)

וָאַכִּ֕ירָה וְהִנֵּ֥ה לֹֽא־אֱלֹהִ֖ים שְׁלָח֑וֹ כִּ֤י הַנְּבוּאָה֙ דִּבֶּ֣ר עָלַ֔י וְטוֹבִיָּ֥ה וְסַנְבַלַּ֖ט שְׂכָרֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and I recognized and there! not God he had.sent.him (dm) the prophecy he.had.spoken on me and Tobiah and Sanballat he had.hired.him

*JPS 1917:* And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me, whereas Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5571.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5571/): 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).