עֹפֶל
ʻôphel · H6076 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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citadel
A fortified hill in a city
Examples2 Kings 5:24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and deposited them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed.
Isaiah 32:14 For the palace has been neglected, the populated city abandoned. Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever, A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
Micah 4:8 “As for you, tower of the flock, Hill of the daughter of Zion, To you it will come— Yes, the former dominion will come, The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
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
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּתdaughter 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵלto, toward 2
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 4 entries
- Impact002001001024
- This lexeme's tagged occurrences (2 Kings 5:24, Isaiah 32:14, Micah 4:8) all describe a physical hill or fortified rise, illustrated at Micah 4:8 ("hill of the daughter of Zion"); this Impact domain code is bundle-shared from the related meaning "emerod" (a swelling/impact-related affliction, an older sense of this same lemma) and carries no tagged occurrence of עֹפֶל (ʻôphel, H6076) independently attesting an impact sense in its actual biblical usage.
- Landforms001002003
- עֹפֶל denotes a hill or elevated mound, a landform, illustrated at 2 Kings 5:24 ("when he came to the hill") and Micah 4:8 ("hill of the daughter of Zion").
- Fortifications001003002003
- עֹפֶל also denotes a fortified stronghold or citadel built upon such a hill, illustrated at Isaiah 32:14 ("hill and watch-tower have become caves"), the fortification sense of the same elevated landform.
- Names of Landforms003001008
- עֹפֶל (ʻôphel, H6076) occurs only 3 times with glosses such as "the hill"/"O hill," reading as a common topographical reference rather than an independently attested proper place name in its own right. The "Names of Landforms" classification is bundle-shared with עֹפֶל (ʻÔphel, H6077) in the source data and is not independently confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6076. ophel I. עֹ֫פֶל noun [masculine] mound, hill, only as acropolis; — ׳ע absolute 2Ki…
I. עֹ֫פֶל noun [masculine] mound, hill, only as acropolis; — ׳ע absolute 2Ki 5:24 +, construct Mic 4:8; — fortified mound or hill within city, or Jerusalem (compare RobBR i. 267 GuZPV v (1882), 326) Mic 4:8; Isa 32:14; south end of eastern hill Neh 3:26; Neh 11:21; 2Ch 33:14 הָע ׳חוֺמַת Neh 3:27; 2Ch 27:3 (compare העפל חמת in קרחה MI21, 22); of Samaria 2Ki 5:24.
II. [עֹ֫פֶל] noun masculine1Sa 6:4 tumour; — only plural Kt (בָּ)עֳפָלִים Deu 28:27; 1Sa 5:6, 1Sa 5:9, 1Sa 5:12; construct עָפְלֵי 1Sa 6:4; suffix עָפְלֵיכֶם 1Sa 6:5; Qr in all טְחֹרֵיכֶם טְחֹרֵי, (ב)טְחֹרִים,, see [ טְחוֺר].
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 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
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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