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# רִבְלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7247

**Riblah** — used 11 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

Riblah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7247/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִבְלָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7247/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. י׳ in land of Hamath 2 K 23:33; 25:21 = Je 52:27, Je 39:6; c. ה loc., רִבְלָ֫תָה 2 K 25:6, 20 = Je 52:26, also (‘in land of Hamath’) Je 39:5; 52:9; בְּרִבְלָ֑תָה v. 10; read רִבְלָ֫תָה also Ez 6:14 (for MT דִּב׳, v. \[דִּבְלָה\]); 𝔊 usually Δεβλαθα (also Ez 6:14); mod. Ribla on Orontes, RobBR ii. 507; iii. 543 ff. BdPal3. 405. הָרִבְלָה (מִשְּׁפָם) Nu 34:11, on NE. border of land of Isr., certainly not so far N. as 1, but site unknown; 𝔊 ἀπὸ Σεπφαμαρ Βηλα, whence Di al. conj. הַרְבֵּ֫לָה, but not Harmel, 8 m. SW. from ר׳ 1 (WetzstZAW iii (1883), 274 f.), see DrHast. DB.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: Riblah (6); to (5).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 25:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.20/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֣ח אֹתָ֔ם נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים וַיֹּ֧לֶךְ אֹתָ֛ם עַל־מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶ֖ל רִבְלָֽתָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.took them Nebuzaradan \[the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards and he.brought them to the.king of.Babylon to Riblah

*JPS 1917:* And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

[Jeremiah 52:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.26/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֣ח אוֹתָ֔ם נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים וַיֹּ֧לֶךְ אוֹתָ֛ם אֶל־מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶ֖ל רִבְלָֽתָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.took them Nebuzaradan \[the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards and he.brought them to the.king of.Babylon to Riblah

*JPS 1917:* And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7247/): 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).