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# עֵיבָל

Biblical Hebrew

**Ebal** — 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

Ebal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5d9_5d1_5b8_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵיבָל²: pr. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5d9_5d1_5b8_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. m. vel gent. name in Edom, Gn 36:23 (𝔊 Γαιβηλ), = 1 Ch 1:40 (𝔊 Γαιβηλ, A Γαοβηλ, 𝔊L Ουβαλ); according to GlaserSkizze ii. 426 poss. = foregoing (cp. with name of (god) Bēl, WklGesch. Isr. 120; Alttest. Unters. 117 f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: Ebal (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.22/#tree)

וְאֶת־עֵיבָ֥ל וְאֶת־אֲבִימָאֵ֖ל וְאֶת־שְׁבָֽא׃

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

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

[Genesis 36:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.23/#tree)

וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ בְּנֵ֣י שׁוֹבָ֔ל עַלְוָ֥ן וּמָנַ֖חַת וְעֵיבָ֑ל שְׁפ֖וֹ וְאוֹנָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.sons of.Shobal Alvan and Manahath and Ebal Shepho and Onam

*JPS 1917:* And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5d9_5d1_5b8_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5d9_5d1_5b8_5dc/): 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).