Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1893
הֶבֶל
Hebelheh'-bel
Abel
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1893is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1893
Hebel, the son of Adam
The King James renders it: Abel.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Hebel is rendered "Abel". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Eight of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:2Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
Genesis 4:2הָ֑בֶל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's eight uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Abel7
- and Abel1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֶבֶל | hebel | vanity | Uses73 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הֶ֣בֶל2
- הֶ֙בֶל֙1
- הֶ֖בֶל1
- הֶ֥בֶל1
- הֶ֔בֶל1
- הָ֑בֶל1
- וְהֶ֨בֶל1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)7HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
Genesis
eight uses
Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
- הָ֑בֶלhavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Abel
- הֶ֙בֶל֙hevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Abel
while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
- וְהֶ֨בֶלvehevelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abel
- הֶ֖בֶלhevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Abel
Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
- הֶ֣בֶלhevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Abel
- הֶ֥בֶלhevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Abel
And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
- הֶ֣בֶלhevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Abel
And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
- הֶ֔בֶלhevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Abel
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.