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Hebrew noun · H5688

עֲבֹת

abothab-oth'

cord

24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻăbôth

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5688is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5688

something intwined, i.e. a string, wreath or foliage

The King James renders it: band, cord, rope, thick bough (branch), wreathen (chain).

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

aboth is rendered "cord". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 28:14and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.

Exodus 28:14עֲבֹ֑ת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's twenty-four uses are in Exodus.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • branches4
  • ropes4
  • the cords4
  • cordage3
  • with ropes2
  • and like rope of1
  • cords of1
  • rope its1
  • rope of1
  • ropes their1
  • the ropes1
  • with ropes of1

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.

עֲבֹדָהabodahserviceUses145

The words it stands beside

All 24, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 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

  • עֲבֹ֑ת3
  • עֲבוֹתִ֔ים2
  • עֲבֹתִ֔ים2
  • בַּעֲבֹת֣וֹת1
  • בַּעֲבֹתִ֑ים1
  • בַּעֲבֹתִ֣ים1
  • הָעֲבֹתִ֜ים1
  • הָעֲבֹתֹ֖ת1
  • הָעֲבֹתֹ֔ת1
  • הָעֲבֹתֹ֣ת1
  • הָֽעֲבֹתֹ֔ת1
  • וְכַעֲב֥וֹת1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural8HNcmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural4HTd/Ncfpa
  • noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural2HR/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncfsc
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp3mp
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfpc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa

Exodus

eight uses
  • and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.

    Exodus 28:14

    • עֲבֹ֑תʾavotnoun · feminine singulartagged: cordage
    • הָעֲבֹתֹ֖תhaavototthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cords
  • For the breastpiece, make braided chains like cords of pure gold.

    Exodus 28:22

    • עֲבֹ֑תʾavotnoun · feminine singulartagged: cordage
  • Then fasten the two gold chains to the two gold rings at the corners of the breastpiece,

    Exodus 28:24

    • עֲבֹתֹ֣תʾavototnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cords of
  • and fasten the other ends of the two chains to the two filigree settings, attaching them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.

    Exodus 28:25

    • הָעֲבֹתֹ֔תhaavototthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cords
  • For the breastpiece they made braided chains like cords of pure gold.

    Exodus 39:15

    • עֲבֹ֑תʾavotnoun · feminine singulartagged: cordage
  • Then they fastened the two gold chains to the two gold rings at the corners of the breastpiece,

    Exodus 39:17

    • הָעֲבֹתֹ֣תhaavototthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cords
  • and they fastened the other ends of the two chains to the two filigree settings, attaching them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.

    Exodus 39:18

    • הָֽעֲבֹתֹ֔תhaavototthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cords

Judges

four uses
  • “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.

    Judges 15:13

    • עֲבֹתִ֣יםʾavotimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: ropes
  • When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.

    Judges 15:14

    • הָעֲבֹתִ֜יםhaavotimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the ropes
  • He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”

    Judges 16:11

    • בַּעֲבֹתִ֣יםbaavotimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with ropes
  • So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

    Judges 16:12

    • עֲבֹתִ֨יםʾavotimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: ropes

Job

one use
  • Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

    Job 39:10

    • עֲבֹת֑וֹavotonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: rope its

Psalms

three uses
  • “Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”

    Psalms 2:3

    • עֲבֹתֵֽימוֹ׃ʾavoteimovnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: ropes their
  • The LORD is God; He has made His light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

    Psalms 118:27

    • בַּעֲבֹתִ֑יםbaavotimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with ropes
  • The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.

    Psalms 129:4

    • עֲב֣וֹתavotnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rope of

Isaiah

one use
  • Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

    Isaiah 5:18

    • וְכַעֲב֥וֹתvekhaavotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and like rope of

Ezekiel

six uses
  • And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes, and you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.

    Ezekiel 3:25

    • עֲבוֹתִ֔יםavotimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: ropes
  • Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

    Ezekiel 4:8

    • עֲבוֹתִ֑יםavotimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: ropes
  • It had strong branches, fit for a ruler’s scepter. It towered high above the thick branches, conspicuous for its height and for its dense foliage.

    Ezekiel 19:11

    • עֲבֹתִ֑יםʾavotimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: branches
  • Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.

    Ezekiel 31:3

    • עֲבֹתִ֔יםʾavotimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: branches
  • Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,

    Ezekiel 31:10

    • עֲבוֹתִ֔יםavotimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: branches
  • This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’

    Ezekiel 31:14

    • עֲבֹתִ֔יםʾavotimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: branches

Hosea

one use
  • I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.

    Hosea 11:4

    • בַּעֲבֹת֣וֹתbaavototpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with ropes of

The letters

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.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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