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title: עוֹבָל — Obal · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עוֹבָל (5745), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Obal. BDB 1906: pr. gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עוֹבָל

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«עוֹבָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Obal** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5745 · **BDB:** עוֹבָל

### Glosses

Obal (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Obal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5745/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pr. gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5745/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** i. עֵיבָל n. pr. gent. Arabian people, descended from Joktan according to Gn 10:28 (𝔊L Γαιβαλ); = עֵיבָל 1 Ch 1:22 (𝔊L Ηβηλ). On loc. cf. GlaserSkizze ii. 426.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עוֹבָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5745/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.28/)

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וְאֶת־עוֹבָ֥ל וְאֶת־אֲבִֽימָאֵ֖ל וְאֶת־שְׁבָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Obal and (et) Abimael and (et) Sheba

*JPS 1917:* and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba;

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