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# שׁוֹבָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7732

**Shobal** — used 9 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

Shobal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7732/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹבָל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7732/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Edomite name Gn 36:20, 23, 29 = 1 Ch 1:38, 40. in Caleb 1 Ch 2:50, 52. in Judah 1 Ch 4:1, 2.—Σαβα(λ), Σουβαλ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shobal (5); of Shobal (3); \[was\] Shobal (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.1/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י יְהוּדָ֑ה פֶּ֧רֶץ חֶצְר֛וֹן וְכַרְמִ֖י וְח֥וּר וְשׁוֹבָֽל׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Judah \[were\].Perez Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

[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/7732.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7732/): 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).