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# תְּבַלֻּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8400

**confusion** — 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

confusion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8400/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּבַלֻּל: confusion, obscurity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8400/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] confusion, obscurity (on form cf. Arabic conj. v. Inf. Sta§ 267) Lv 21:20 (H) ת׳ בעינו i.e. defective sight? cf. Di. (‖ שֶׁבֶר, גִּבֵּן, דַּק, מְרוֹחַ אָ֑שֶׁךְ, etc.)

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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a defect (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 21:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.20/#tree)

אֽוֹ־גִבֵּ֣ן אוֹ־דַ֔ק א֖וֹ תְּבַלֻּ֣ל בְּעֵינ֑וֹ א֤וֹ גָרָב֙ א֣וֹ יַלֶּ֔פֶת א֖וֹ מְר֥וֹחַ אָֽשֶׁךְ׃

*Word for word:* or a.\[man\].hunchbacked or a.\[man\].thin or a.defect in eye his or a.festering.rash or scab\[s\] or a.\[man\].crushed of.testicle

*JPS 1917:* or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8400.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8400/): 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).