סַבָּל
Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5449
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
burden-bearer tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
סַבָּל: burden-bearer tree →
The whole BDB entry
n.[m.] burden-bearer, (late);—only abs. ס׳ coll. Ne 4:4; 2 Ch 2:1, 17; mpl. abs. סַבָּלִים 2 Ch 34:13;—נֹשֵׂא סַבָּל 1 K 5:29 is certainly wrong; 𝔊 αἴροντες ἄρσιν, 𝔙 qui onera portabant, hence prob. נֹשֵׂא סֵ֫בֶל; > אִישׁ סַבָּל, as ‖ 2 Ch 2:1.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: burden-bearer[s] (3); burden-bearers (1); the burden-bearer[s] (1).
In the verses
וַיְהִ֧י לִשְׁלֹמֹ֛ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף נֹשֵׂ֣א סַבָּ֑ל וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף חֹצֵ֥ב בָּהָֽר׃
Word for word: and it.belonged to Solomon seventy thousand carrier[s] burden-bearer[s] and eighty thousand stonemason[s] in the.hill country
JPS 1917: And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוּדָ֗ה כָּשַׁל֙ כֹּ֣חַ הַסַּבָּ֔ל וְהֶעָפָ֖ר הַרְבֵּ֑ה וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ לֹ֣א נוּכַ֔ל לִבְנ֖וֹת בַּחוֹמָֽה׃
Word for word: and it.said Judah it.has.failed the.strength of the.burden-bearer[s] and the debris [is].much and we not we.will.be.able to rebuild (on) the wall
JPS 1917: And Judah said: 'The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.'
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