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title: תֵּבֵל — world · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תֵּבֵל (8398), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 36 times: world. BDB 1906: n.f. world. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תֵּבֵל

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«תֵּבֵל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **world** — 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:** 36 times · **Key:** 8398 · **BDB:** תֵּבֵל

### Glosses

\[the\].world (20); of.\[the\].world (12); world (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

world [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8398/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. world [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8398/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Na 1:5 (appar. m. Is 14:17) world, poet. synon. of אֶרֶץ (perhaps orig. as productive, cf. יְבוּל, בּוּל, but this sense not clearly maintained; cf. also Assyrian tabalu in êlî tabali, by land, ‖ êlî nâru, by water (river) MeissnerZA 1889, iv. 3, 261, 263, 265 f. SASm Assyrian Letters iv. pl. viii. ix, 1. 33)—usually abs. ת׳ (no art.), cstr. Jb 37:12 Pr 8:31; world, usually ‖ אֶרֶץ: 1 S 2:8 (י׳ set ת׳ on מְצֻקֵי אֶרֶץ), Is 14:21; 24:4; 34:1 Je 10:12 = 51:15, 1 Ch 16:30 (‖ ψ 96:10 infr.) Jb 34:13 ψ 19:5; 77:19 = 97:4, 90:2; 96:13 (+ עַמִּים), 98:9 (+ id.); ת׳ וְיֹשְׁבֵי בָהּ Na 1:5 ψ 24:1; יֹשְׁבֵי ת׳ 33:8 Is 18:3 (‖ שֹׁכְנֵי ארץ), 26:9, 18 La 4:12; ת׳ וּמְלֹאָהּ ψ 89:12 (+ שָׁמַיִם, cf. ארץ ומלאה 24:1); עַל־פְּנֵי ת׳ אָ֑רְצָה Jb 37:12 upon the face of the world of earth (earthly world, the whole expanse of earth); בְּת׳ אַרְצוֹ Pr 8:31; on the other hand עַפְרוֹת ת׳ v 26; ת׳ alone Jb 18:18; other combin. ת׳ וּמְלֹאָהּ ψ 50:12 (cf. 89:12 supr.); פְּנֵי־ת׳ Is 27:6 (cf. Jb 37:12 supr.); מֹסְדוֹת ת׳ 2 S 22:16 foundations of the world = ψ 18:16, cf. תִּכּוֹן ת׳ ψ 93:1; 96:10 (= 1 Ch 16:30); world as object of י׳’s judgment 9:9 (‖ לְאֻמִּים; v. also 96:13 supr.), cf. ת׳ וישׁבי בה 98:7 (‖ יַם), Is 13:11 (‖ רשׁעים); as devastated by Babylonian conqueror Is 14:17 (‖ עָרָיו).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 35 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תֵּבֵל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8398/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 97:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.4/)

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הֵאִ֣ירוּ בְרָקָ֣יו תֵּבֵ֑ל רָאֲתָ֖ה וַתָּחֵ֣ל הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* they.light.up flashes his.lightning \[the\].world it.sees and it.trembled the earth

*JPS 1917:* His lightnings lighted up the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

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[Psalms 9:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.9/)

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וְה֗וּא יִשְׁפֹּֽט־תֵּבֵ֥ל בְּצֶ֑דֶק יָדִ֥ין לְ֝אֻמִּ֗ים בְּמֵישָׁרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he he.will.judge \[the\].world with righteousness he.will.judge \[the\].nations with uprightness(es)

*JPS 1917:* And He will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples with equity.

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