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סֵבֶל

çêbel · H5447 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. forced labor

    Action by which people carry heavy loads, forced and without pay

    Examples

    1 Kings 11:28 Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious, he appointed him over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.

    Nehemiah 4:17 Those who were rebuilding the wall and those who carried burdens carried with one hand doing the work, and the other keeping hold of a weapon.

  2. burden > oppression

    Process by which humans suffer hardship, described as a heavy burden that one is forced to carry

    Examples

    Psalm 81:6 “I relieved his shoulder of the burden, His hands were freed from the basket.

How it’s used In 2 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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

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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Semantic domains 2 entries
Serve002003002023
The word names a burden or forced labor imposed on a subjugated people, as Israel groans under its burdens in Egypt (Exodus 1:11, 2:11), tying the word to compulsory servile labor.
Unsafe002003003022
The word's burden sense ties it to the hardship and oppression such forced labor imposes, a broader hazardous-hardship sense than the bare notion of a load.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

סָבַל çâbal · H5445 · to carry, to bear · 9×סְבָלָה çᵉbâlâh · H5450 · burden > forced labor · 6×סַבָּל çabbâl · H5449 · burden bearer, carrier · 5×סֵבֶלçêbel · H5447סֹבֶל çôbel · H5448 · burden > oppression · 3×סְבַל çᵉbal · H5446 · strongly laid · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5447. sebel סֵ֫בֶל noun [masculine] load, burden; — absolute Neh 4:11; Psa 81:7…
H5447. sebel
סֵ֫בֶל noun [masculine] load, burden; — absolute Neh 4:11; Psa 81:7 (enforced burden); construct id., = burdensome labour (of corvée) 1Ki 11:28. — See also סַבָּל.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Serve2 occurrencesUnsafe1 occurrence

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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