תֵּבֵל
tēbēl
world
Strong's H8398NounHebrewTWOT 835h

תֵּבֵל (tēbēl) is a Hebrew noun meaning world. It appears 36 times in 10 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H8398).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 835h)

Range of meaning (TWOT 835h)world, productive; earth, moist, globe, inhabitants, land; habitable part
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

תֵּבֵל noun, feminine: world, productive

Strong's H8398 תֵּבֵל: the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as Babylonia, Palestine
KJV:habitable part, world.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 835: יָבַל yābal — conduct, bear along; carry away; be borne along, be borne, be led; flow, bring; carry, lead

See it in Scripture

1 Samuel 2:82 Samuel 22:161 Chronicles 16:30

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