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# שׁוֹבָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7727

**Shobab** — used 4 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

Shobab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7727/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹבָב²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7727/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Σωβαβ, etc.: son of David 2 S 5:14 = 1 Ch 14:4; 1 Ch 3:5. son of Caleb 1 Ch 2:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: Shobab (4).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 5:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.5.14/#tree)

וְאֵ֗לֶּה שְׁמ֛וֹת הַיִּלֹּדִ֥ים ל֖וֹ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם שַׁמּ֣וּעַ וְשׁוֹבָ֔ב וְנָתָ֖ן וּשְׁלֹמֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.names of the.\[ones\].born to him in Jerusalem Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon

*JPS 1917:* And these are the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon;

[1 Chronicles 14:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.4/#tree)

וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ שְׁמ֣וֹת הַיְלוּדִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָיוּ־ל֖וֹ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם שַׁמּ֣וּעַ וְשׁוֹבָ֔ב נָתָ֖ן וּשְׁלֹמֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.names of the.\[ones\].born who they.belonged to him in Jerusalem Shammua and Shobab Nathan and Solomon

*JPS 1917:* And these are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7727.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7727/): 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).