סֹבֶל
çôbel · H5448 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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burden > oppression
Process by which humans suffer hardship, described as a heavy burden that one is forced to carry
ExamplesIsaiah 9:4 For You will break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders, The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.
Isaiah 10:27 So it will be on that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.
Isaiah 14:25 to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulders.
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
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 3
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֹלyoke 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 2 words
- מַשָּׂא massâʼ · H4853 · heart's desire, carrying, bearing
- Common Hebrew term for burden or load, often interchangeable with סֹבֶל in contexts of physical burdens or imposed labor
- עֹל ʻôl · H5923 · yoke, oppression, bondage
- Hebrew term for yoke that extends metaphorically to burdens or oppressive loads, particularly in contexts of imposed labor or servitude
In the other Testament 2 words
- φορτίον phortíon · G5413 · load, burden, cargo (as of a ship)
- Standard Greek equivalent for Hebrew burden terminology, used in LXX and NT for physical and metaphorical burdens that must be carried
- βάρος báros · G922 · hardship, burden, tremendous
- Greek term for burden emphasizing heaviness/weight, commonly used in LXX as translation equivalent for Hebrew burden vocabulary
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The word names a burden, used of the oppressive load lifted from a shoulder in deliverance imagery (Isaiah 9:4's parallel sense), tying the word to a hardship weighing on the bearer.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5448. sobel or subbal [סֹ֫בֶל] noun masculineIsa 10:27 burden (always figurative of…
or subbal [סֹ֫בֶל] noun masculineIsa 10:27 burden (always figurative of burden of tyranny); — only suffix סֻבְּלוֺ, Isa 10:27 (see references on סֻבְּכוֺ, [סְבֹךְ]), ס ׳עֹל Isa 9:3; Isa 14:25 (in all conceived as burden resting on shoulders).
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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