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# קְבֹל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6904

**battering-ram** — 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

battering-ram [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6904/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְבֹל: something in front attacking-engine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6904/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] something in front, spec. an attacking-engine (cf. قُبُلٌ front; ܐܰܩܒܶܠ, advance to attack, so הקביל Ecclus 12:5), Ez 26:9 מְחִי קָֽבֳלּוֹ the stroke of his attacking-engine (on the form ḳobolló, from קְבֹל for ḳŭbŭl, see Ol§ 169 Köii. 68 f.; and cf. קָֽטֳנִּי from קְטֹן for ḳŭṭŭn, קָֽטָבְךָ, קָֽרָבְכֶם; and on the בֳ, Ges§ 93q). cstr. קָֽבָל־עָם 2 K 15:10, explained formerly as before the people, i.e. publicly (cf. Biblical Aramaic קֳבֵל before); but the Aramaic is surprising, and הָעָם needed: read בְּיִבְלְעָם in Ibleam, with 𝔊L (confirming earlier conj. of GrG ii. 1. 99 StaGi. 575), Dr Klo Benz Kit al.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his battering-ram (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 26:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.9/#tree)

וּמְחִ֣י קָֽבָלּ֔וֹ יִתֵּ֖ן בְּחֹֽמוֹתָ֑יִךְ וּמִ֨גְדְּלֹתַ֔יִךְ יִתֹּ֖ץ בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and the.blow his.battering-ram his he.will.set on walls your and towers your he.will.break.down with swords his

*JPS 1917:* And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6904.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6904/): 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).