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title: סָבַל — bear a heavy load · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָבַל (5445), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: bear a heavy load. BDB 1906: vb. bear. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סָבַל

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«סָבַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bear a heavy load** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 5445 · **BDB:** סָבַל

### Glosses

I.will.carry (2); \[will.be\].loaded (1); carry.a.load (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bear a heavy load [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5445/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. bear [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5445/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bear a heavy load (NH id.; Ar. סְבַל, ܣܒܰܠ id.; cf. also sub זבל p. 259 b supr.);— Pf. 3 ms. sf. סְבָלָם Is 53:4; 1 pl. סָבָ֑לְנוּ La 5:7;—Impf. 3 ms. יִסְבֹּל Is 53:11; 1 s. אֶסְבֹּל 46:4; 3 mpl. sf. יִסְבְּלֻהוּ 46:7; Inf. cstr. לִסְבֹּל Gn 49:15;—bear a load, וַיֵּט שִׁכְמוֹ לִסְבֹּל Gn 49:15 (poem in J; of Issachar under fig. of ass); of carrying an idol Is 46:7; of י׳ carrying Isr. v 4, 4; servant of י׳ carrying load of pain 53:4 and guilt v 11; Isr. bearing iniquities of fathers La 5:7. Pt. pl. מְסֻבָּלִים laden, ψ 144:14 (i.e. pregnant Ges Hi Ew Hup-Now Che al.; perhaps better fatted EpsteinZAW 1913, 226–7 𝔊 Aq Symm 𝔙 𝔙). Impf. וְיִסְתַּבֵּל הֶחָגָב Ec 12:5 stuffs itself, grows fat 𝔊 𝔙 (v. חָגָב).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָבַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5445/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 5:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.7/)

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אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּ חָֽטְאוּ֙ וְאֵינָ֔ם וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ עֲוֺנֹתֵיהֶ֥ם סָבָֽלְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* ancestors our they.sinned and they.\[are\] not and we iniquities their we.have.carried

*JPS 1917:* Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

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[Psalms 144:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.14/)

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אַלּוּפֵ֗ינוּ מְֽסֻבָּ֫לִ֥ים אֵֽין־פֶּ֭רֶץ וְאֵ֣ין יוֹצֵ֑את וְאֵ֥ין צְ֝וָחָ֗ה בִּרְחֹבֹתֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* cattle(s) our \[will.be\].loaded there.\[will\].not.\[be\] a.breach and there.\[will\].not.\[be\] abortion and there.\[will\].not.\[be\] an.outcry in our.open places

*JPS 1917:* Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;

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