חֹבֵל
chôbêl · H2259 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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sailor
A person who works on a ship
ExamplesEzekiel 27:8 “The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; Your wise men, Tyre, were aboard; they were your sailors.
Ezekiel 27:27 “Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise, Your seamen and your sailors, Your repairers of leaks, your dealers in merchandise, And all your men of war who are in you, With all your contingent that is in your midst, Will fall into the heart of the seas On the day of your overthrow.
Ezekiel 27:28 “At the sound of the cry of your sailors, The pasture lands will shake.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- ךְyour 3
- יָםsea 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֵםthey, them 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- זַעַקcry 1
- רַבmany, great 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מַלָּח mallâch · H4419 · sailor
- מַלָּח refers to a sailor or mariner in general, a broader maritime profession that overlaps with but is not identical to the specialized role of pilot/shipmaster (חֹבֵל); both appear in Ezekiel 27's description of Tyre's seafarers, where חֹבֵל designates the pilot specifically while מַלָּח designates sailors more generally.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κυβερνήτης kybernḗtēs · G2942 · captain of a ship
- κυβερνήτης is the standard Greek term for a ship's pilot or steersman, the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew חֹבֵל in nautical contexts (cf. Ezekiel 27:8, 27-28 where חֹבֵל appears in descriptions of Tyre's maritime commerce).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Professions001001003009
- חֹבֵל denotes a pilot or ship's captain, the skilled mariner listed among Tyre's seafaring crew in Ezekiel's oracle.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2259. chobel חֹבֵל noun masculine sailor (denominative from חֶבֶל; i.e. rope-puller) —…
חֹבֵל noun masculine sailor (denominative from חֶבֶל; i.e. rope-puller) — הַיָּם חֹבְלֵי Eze 27:29; חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ Eze 27:8, Eze 27:27, Eze 27:28; collective הַחֹבֵל רַב i.e. the captain Jon 1:6.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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