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title: חֹבֵל — sailor · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֹבֵל (2259), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: sailor. BDB 1906: n.m. sailor. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֹבֵל

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«חֹבֵל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sailor** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 2259 · **BDB:** חֹבֵל

### Glosses

sailors (2); the.sailor\[s\] (1); the.sailors (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sailor [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2259/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. sailor [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2259/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sailor (denom. from חֶבֶל; i.e. rope-puller)—חֹבְלֵי הַיָּם Ez 27:29; חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ Ez 27:8, 27, 28; coll. רַב הַחֹבֵל i.e. the captain Jon 1:6.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֹבֵל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2259/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 27:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.28/)

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לְק֖וֹל זַעֲקַ֣ת חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּ מִגְרֹשֽׁוֹת׃

*Word for word:* to the.sound of.the.outcry your.sailors your they.will.quake pasturelands

*JPS 1917:* At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the waves shall shake.

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[Ezekiel 27:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.8/)

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יֹשְׁבֵ֤י צִידוֹן֙ וְאַרְוַ֔ד הָי֥וּ שָׁטִ֖ים לָ֑ךְ חֲכָמַ֤יִךְ צוֹר֙ הָ֣יוּ בָ֔ךְ הֵ֖מָּה חֹבְלָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* the.inhabitants of.Sidon and Arvad they.were \[those.who\].row for you your.skillful \[people\] O.Tyre they.were in you they sailors \[were\].your

*JPS 1917:* The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.

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