Lexical Summary tebel: world Original Word: תֵּבֵלTransliteration: tebel Phonetic Spelling: (tay-bale') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: world Meaning: the earth, the globe, its inhabitants, a particular land Strong's Concordance confusion Apparently from balal; mixture, i.e. Unnatural bestiality -- confusion. see HEBREW balal Brown-Driver-Briggs H8398. tebel תֵּבֵל noun feminineNahum 1:5 (apparently masculine Isaiah 14:17) world, poetic synonym of אֶרֶץ (perhaps originally as productive, compare בּוּל יְבוּל,, but this sense not clearly maintained; compare also Assyrian tabalu in êlî tabali, by land, "" êlî nâru, by water (river) MeissnZA 1889, iv. 3, 261, 263, 265 f. SASmAssyrian Letters iv. plate viii. ix, 1. 33) — usually absolute ׳ת (no article), construct Job 37:12; Proverbs 8:31; world, usually "" ׃אֶרֶץ 1 Samuel 2:8 (׳י set ׳ת on אֶרֶץ מְצֻקֵי), Isaiah 14:21; 24:4; 34:1; Jeremiah 10:12 = 51:15, 1 Chronicles 16:30 (= Psalm 96:10 below) Job 34:13; Psalm 19:5; 77:19 = 97:4; 90:2; 96:13 (+ עַמִּים), 98:9 (+ id.); בָהּ ׳ת וְישְׁבֵי Nahum 1:5; Psalm 24:1; ת ׳ישְׁבֵי 33:8; Isaiah 18:3 ("" ארץ שֹׁכְנֵי), 26:9, 18; Lamentations 4:12; ׳ת וּמְלֹאָהּ Lam 89:12 (+ שָׁמַיִם, compare ומלאה ארץ Lam 24:1); ת ׳עַלמְּֿנֵי אָ֑רְצָה Job 37:12 upon the face of the world of earth (earthly world, the whole expanse of earth); ׳בְּת אַרְצוֺ Proverbs 8:31; on the other hand ת ׳עַפְרוֺת 8:26; ׳ת alone Job 18:18; other combinations ׳ת וּמְלֹאָהּ Psalm 50:12 (compare 89:12 above); ׳מְּנֵיתֿ Isaiah 27:6 (compare Job 37:12 above); ת ׳מֹסְדוֺת 2 Samuel 22:16 foundations of the world = Psalm 18:16, compare ת ׳תִּכּוֺן 93:1; 96:10 (= 1 Chronicles 16:30); world as object of ׳יs judgment 9:9 ("" לְאֻמִּים; see also 1Chron 96:13 above), compare ׳ת בה וישׁבי 1Chron 98:7 ("" יַם), Isaiah 13:11 ("" רשׁעים); as devastated by Babylonian conqueror 14:17 ("" עָרָיו). |
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