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# תֵּבֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8398

**world** — used 36 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

world [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8398/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֵּבֵל: n.f. world [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8398/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Na 1:5 (appar. m. Is 14:17) world, poet. synon. of אֶרֶץ (perhaps orig. as productive, cf. יְבוּל, בּוּל, but this sense not clearly maintained; cf. also Assyrian tabalu in êlî tabali, by land, ‖ êlî nâru, by water (river) MeissnerZA 1889, iv. 3, 261, 263, 265 f. SASm Assyrian Letters iv. pl. viii. ix, 1. 33)—usually abs. ת׳ (no art.), cstr. Jb 37:12 Pr 8:31; world, usually ‖ אֶרֶץ: 1 S 2:8 (י׳ set ת׳ on מְצֻקֵי אֶרֶץ), Is 14:21; 24:4; 34:1 Je 10:12 = 51:15, 1 Ch 16:30 (‖ ψ 96:10 infr.) Jb 34:13 ψ 19:5; 77:19 = 97:4, 90:2; 96:13 (+ עַמִּים), 98:9 (+ id.); ת׳ וְיֹשְׁבֵי בָהּ Na 1:5 ψ 24:1; יֹשְׁבֵי ת׳ 33:8 Is 18:3 (‖ שֹׁכְנֵי ארץ), 26:9, 18 La 4:12; ת׳ וּמְלֹאָהּ ψ 89:12 (+ שָׁמַיִם, cf. ארץ ומלאה 24:1); עַל־פְּנֵי ת׳ אָ֑רְצָה Jb 37:12 upon the face of the world of earth (earthly world, the whole expanse of earth); בְּת׳ אַרְצוֹ Pr 8:31; on the other hand עַפְרוֹת ת׳ v 26; ת׳ alone Jb 18:18; other combin. ת׳ וּמְלֹאָהּ ψ 50:12 (cf. 89:12 supr.); פְּנֵי־ת׳ Is 27:6 (cf. Jb 37:12 supr.); מֹסְדוֹת ת׳ 2 S 22:16 foundations of the world = ψ 18:16, cf. תִּכּוֹן ת׳ ψ 93:1; 96:10 (= 1 Ch 16:30); world as object of י׳’s judgment 9:9 (‖ לְאֻמִּים; v. also 96:13 supr.), cf. ת׳ וישׁבי בה 98:7 (‖ יַם), Is 13:11 (‖ רשׁעים); as devastated by Babylonian conqueror Is 14:17 (‖ עָרָיו).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 35 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: \[the\] world (20); of \[the\] world (12); world (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 97:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.4/#tree)

הֵאִ֣ירוּ בְרָקָ֣יו תֵּבֵ֑ל רָאֲתָ֖ה וַתָּחֵ֣ל הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* they.light.up flashes his.lightning \[the\].world it.sees and it.trembled the earth

*JPS 1917:* His lightnings lighted up the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

[Psalms 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.9/#tree)

וְה֗וּא יִשְׁפֹּֽט־תֵּבֵ֥ל בְּצֶ֑דֶק יָדִ֥ין לְ֝אֻמִּ֗ים בְּמֵישָׁרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he he.will.judge \[the\].world with righteousness he.will.judge \[the\].nations with uprightness(es)

*JPS 1917:* And He will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples with equity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8398.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8398/): 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).