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# עֵיבָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5858

**Ebal** — used 5 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/1506/5858/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵיבָל³: pr. mont. Ebal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5858/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. mont. Ebal, the mt. of cursing, N. of Shechem (Nabulus), and opp. Mt. Gerizim (mt. of blessing, S. of Shechem), Dt 11:29, also Jos 8:30, 33 (D); 𝔊 Γαιβαλ (connex. with above √ dub.; on בל = Bēl, cf. GrayProp. N. 124 n., and reff.);—on Ebal v. RobBR ii. 275 ff. GASmGeogr. Ch. vi. Di Dt 11:29 Drib. BdPal. (1898), 257.

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 (6 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: of Ebal (5).

## In the verses

[Joshua 8:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.8.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.8.30/#tree)

אָ֣ז יִבְנֶ֤ה יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ לַֽיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל בְּהַ֖ר עֵיבָֽל׃

*Word for word:* then he.built Joshua an.altar to Yahweh the.God of.Israel on the.mountain of.Ebal

*JPS 1917:* Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD, the God of Israel, in mount Ebal,

[Deuteronomy 27:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.13/#tree)

וְאֵ֛לֶּה יַֽעַמְד֥וּ עַל־הַקְּלָלָ֖ה בְּהַ֣ר עֵיבָ֑ל רְאוּבֵן֙ גָּ֣ד וְאָשֵׁ֔ר וּזְבוּלֻ֖ן דָּ֥ן וְנַפְתָּלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and these.\[tribes\] they.will.stand on the curse on the.mountain of.Ebal Reuben Gad and Asher and Zebulun Dan and Naphtali

*JPS 1917:* and these shall stand upon mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5858.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5858/): 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).