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# עוֹבָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5745

**Obal** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Obal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5745/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוֹבָל: pr. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5745/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** i. עֵיבָל n. pr. gent. Arabian people, descended from Joktan according to Gn 10:28 (𝔊L Γαιβαλ); = עֵיבָל 1 Ch 1:22 (𝔊L Ηβηλ). On loc. cf. GlaserSkizze ii. 426.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Obal (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.28/#tree)

וְאֶת־עוֹבָ֥ל וְאֶת־אֲבִֽימָאֵ֖ל וְאֶת־שְׁבָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Obal and (et) Abimael and (et) Sheba

*JPS 1917:* and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5745.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5745/): 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).