יוֹבֵל
yôwbêl · H3104 · Hebrew · 27 occurrences
Thing
- Horn, ram’s hornWind instruments80 verses
Meanings
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ram's horn
Musical instrument made of a ram's horn, and used to send sound signals to people for communication purposes
ExamplesExodus 19:13 ‘No hand shall touch him, but he shall certainly be stoned or shot through; whether animal or person, the violator shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”
Joshua 6:4 “Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
Joshua 6:6 So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and have seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”
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Jubilee
The name given to each fiftieth year in the Israelite calendar, when a general release of debts was proclaimed, announced with the blow of a ram's horn
ExamplesLeviticus 25:10 ‘So you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
Leviticus 25:11 ‘You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor harvest its aftergrowth, nor gather grapes from its untrimmed vines.
Leviticus 25:12 ‘For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce from the field.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- מָשַׁךְto draw, to pull, to prolong 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 10
- אַחַרafter, behind 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
15 occurrences in 3 groups
- שָׁנֶהyear 10
- שׁוֹפָרtrumpet 4
- קֶרֶןhorn 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
- מְנַעְנַע mᵉnaʻnaʻ · H4517 · shaker, rattle
- Both lexemes denote wind instruments — a ram's horn or trumpet, and a cornet — which are plausibly synonymous or closely overlapping in sense.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἄφεσις áphesis · G859 · to pardon, to forgive, forgiveness
- Hebrew יוֹבֵל refers to the jubilee year itself and the ram's horn that announced it; Greek ἄφεσις captures the jubilee's theological essence as the year of 'release' or 'freedom' (debt cancellation, slave manumission, land restoration), translating the institution's functional purpose rather than its acoustic marker.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Musical Instruments001003001001013
- יוֹבֵל denotes the ram's-horn trumpet whose long blast signaled Israel to approach Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:13), the same word from which the Jubilee year takes its name.
- Time002002002010
- יוֹבֵל names the fiftieth-year Jubilee itself, a sabbatical cycle in which property reverted to its original owners and the land lay fallow (Leviticus 25:10-13).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3104. yobel יֹבֵל יוֺבֵל, noun masculineNum 36:4 ram, ram's horn, cornet (Phoenician יבל…
יֹבֵל יוֺבֵל, noun masculineNum 36:4 ram, ram's horn, cornet (Phoenician יבל ram; compare Di Lev 25:10 DlPr 124) — absolute יוֺבֵל Jos 6:5 Jos 6:7t.; יֹבֵל Exo 19:13 Exo 19:13t.; plural יוֺבְלִים Jos 6:4 Jos 6:2t.; יֹבְלִים Jos 6:13; —
1 ram, only in combination: הַיּ בְּקֶרֶן ׳בִּמְשֹׁךְ Jos 6:5 the ram's horn, as wind-instrument; so שׁוֺפְרוֺת(ה)י(ו)בלים Jos 6:4, Jos 6:6, Jos 6:8, Jos 6:13 rams' horns (see BenzArchäol. 276); יֹבֵל alone, הַיֹּבֵל בִּמְשֹׁךְ Exo 19:13 at the sounding of the ram ('s horn).
2 designation of 50th year, marked by blowing of cornets, AV 'jubile' (so Late Hebrew יובֵילָא ᵑ7 יוֺבֵל,, as loan-word); originally no doubt הַיּוֺבֵל שְׁנַת year of the ram ('s horn), as Lev 25:13, Lev 25:28, Lev 25:40, Lev 25:50, Lev 25:52, Lev 25:54 (all H), Lev 27:17-18, Lev 27:23, Lev 27:24 (all P), but then, without שׁנת, as לָכֶם תִּהְיֶה הִוא יוֺבֵל Lev 25:10 a ram ('s horn blowing) shall it be to you; so Lev 25:11; Lev 25:12; Lev 25:15; Lev 25:28; Lev 25:30; Lev 25:31; Lev 25:33 (all H), Lev 27:18; Num 36:4 (both P).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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