Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3104
יוֹבֵל
yobelyo-bale'
jubilee/horn
27 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yôwbêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3104is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3104
the blast of a horn (from its continuous sound); specifically, the signal of the silver trumpets; hence, the instrument itself and the festival thus introduced
The King James renders it: jubile, ram's horn, trumpet.
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
yobel is rendered "jubilee/horn". It stands 27 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 19:13No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
Exodus 19:13הַיֹּבֵ֔ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty of the word's twenty-seven uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the jubilee13
- in the jubilee4
- a jubilee3
- the rams' horns3
- the ram's horn2
- and in the jubilee1
- rams' horns1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 27, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 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
- הַיֹּבֵ֖ל3
- הַיֹּבֵ֑ל3
- הַיֹּבֵ֔ל2
- הַיֹּבֵל֮2
- הַיּֽוֹבְלִים֙2
- יוֹבֵ֣ל2
- בַיֹּבֵ֗ל1
- בַּיֹּבֵ֔ל1
- בַּיֹּבֵ֑ל1
- בַּיֹּבֵֽל׃1
- הַיֹּבְלִ֗ים1
- הַיּוֹבֵ֖ל1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular15HTd/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular4HRd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
Exodus
one use
No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
- הַיֹּבֵ֔לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the ram's horn
Leviticus
twenty uses
So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
- יוֹבֵ֥לyovelnoun · masculine singulartagged: a jubilee
The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
- יוֹבֵ֣לyovelnoun · masculine singulartagged: a jubilee
For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.
- יוֹבֵ֣לyovelnoun · masculine singulartagged: a jubilee
In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
- הַיּוֹבֵ֖לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
- הַיּוֹבֵ֔לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
- הַיּוֹבֵ֑לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
- בַּיֹּבֵ֔לbaiyovelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the jubilee
If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.
- בַּיֹּבֵֽל׃baiyovelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the jubilee
But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
- וּבַיֹּבֵ֖לuvaiyovelconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in the jubilee
So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
- בַּיֹּבֵ֑לbaiyovelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the jubilee
Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
- הַיֹּבֵ֖לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
- הַיֹּבֵ֑לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.
- הַיֹּבֵ֖לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
- הַיֹּבֵ֔לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.
- הַיֹּבֵ֖לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.
- הַיֹּבֵל֮haiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
- הַיֹּבֵ֑לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.
- בַיֹּבֵ֗לvaiyovelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the jubilee
then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.
- הַיֹּבֵ֑לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
- הַיּוֹבֵל֙haiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
Numbers
one use
And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
- הַיֹּבֵל֮haiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the jubilee
Joshua
five uses
Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.
- הַיּֽוֹבְלִים֙haiyovlimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the rams' horns
And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”
- הַיּוֹבֵ֗לhaiyovelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the ram's horn
So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”
- יוֹבְלִ֔יםyovlimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: rams' horns
After Joshua had spoken to the people, seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns before the LORD advanced and blew the horns, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
- הַיּֽוֹבְלִים֙haiyovlimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the rams' horns
And the seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns kept marching ahead of the ark of the LORD and blowing the horns. The armed troops went in front of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the horns kept sounding.
- הַיֹּבְלִ֗יםhaiyoelimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the rams' horns
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.