Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5449
סַבָּל
sabbalsab-bawl'
burden
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çabbâl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5449is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5449
a porter
The King James renders it: (to bear, bearer of) burden(-s).
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
sabbal is rendered "burden". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 5:15Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
1 Kings 5:15סַבָּ֑ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- burden-bearer3
- the burden-bearer1
- the burden-bearers1
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.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- סַבָּ֔ל2
- הַסַּבָּ֔ל1
- הַסַּבָּלִ֗ים1
- סַבָּ֑ל1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
1 Kings
one use
Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
- סַבָּ֑לsabalnoun · masculine singulartagged: burden-bearer
2 Chronicles
three uses
So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- סַבָּ֔לsabalnoun · masculine singulartagged: burden-bearer
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- סַבָּ֔לsabalnoun · masculine singulartagged: burden-bearer
were over the laborers and supervised all who did the work, task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.
- הַסַּבָּלִ֗יםhasabalimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the burden-bearers
Nehemiah
one use
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
- הַסַּבָּ֔לhasabalthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the burden-bearer
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.