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title: קְבֹל — battering-ram · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קְבֹל (6904), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: battering-ram. BDB 1906: something in front attacking-engine. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְבֹל

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«קְבֹל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **battering-ram** — 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:** 6904 · **BDB:** קְבֹל

### Glosses

his.battering-ram (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

battering-ram [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6904/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

something in front attacking-engine [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6904/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] something in front, spec. an attacking-engine (cf. قُبُلٌ front; ܐܰܩܒܶܠ, advance to attack, so הקביל Ecclus 12:5), Ez 26:9 מְחִי קָֽבֳלּוֹ the stroke of his attacking-engine (on the form ḳobolló, from קְבֹל for ḳŭbŭl, see Ol§ 169 Köii. 68 f.; and cf. קָֽטֳנִּי from קְטֹן for ḳŭṭŭn, קָֽטָבְךָ, קָֽרָבְכֶם; and on the בֳ, Ges§ 93q). cstr. קָֽבָל־עָם 2 K 15:10, explained formerly as before the people, i.e. publicly (cf. Biblical Aramaic קֳבֵל before); but the Aramaic is surprising, and הָעָם needed: read בְּיִבְלְעָם in Ibleam, with 𝔊L (confirming earlier conj. of GrG ii. 1. 99 StaGi. 575), Dr Klo Benz Kit al.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קְבֹל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6904/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 26:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.9/)

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וּמְחִ֣י קָֽבָלּ֔וֹ יִתֵּ֖ן בְּחֹֽמוֹתָ֑יִךְ וּמִ֨גְדְּלֹתַ֔יִךְ יִתֹּ֖ץ בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and the.blow his.battering-ram his he.will.set on walls your and towers your he.will.break.down with swords his

*JPS 1917:* And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

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