Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8398
תֵּבֵל
tebeltay-bale'
world
36 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: têbêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8398is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8398
the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as Babylonia, Palestine
The King James renders it: habitable part, world.
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
tebel is rendered "world". It stands 36 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Fifteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
1 Samuel 2:8תֵּבֵֽל׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fifteen of the word's thirty-six uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- world32
- and world2
- and from world1
- in world 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תֵּבָה | tebah | ark | Uses28 |
The words it stands beside
All 36, 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
- תֵּבֵ֥ל5
- תֵּבֵ֑ל4
- תֵּבֵ֖ל4
- תֵבֵ֖ל3
- תֵּ֝בֵ֗ל3
- תֵבֵֽל׃3
- תֵּבֵֽל׃2
- בְּתֵבֵ֣ל1
- וּֽמִתֵּבֵ֥ל1
- וְתֵבֵ֑ל1
- וְתֵבֵ֖ל1
- תֵ֭בֵל1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular30HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular1HC/R/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
1 Samuel
one use
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- תֵּבֵֽל׃tevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
2 Samuel
one use
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
- תֵּבֵ֑לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
1 Chronicles
one use
tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- תֵּבֵ֖לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Job
three uses
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- וּֽמִתֵּבֵ֥לumitevelconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and from world
Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?
- תֵּבֵ֥לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
- תֵבֵ֣לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Psalms
fifteen uses
He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.
- תֵּבֵ֥לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
- תֵּ֫בֵ֥לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
- תֵ֭בֵלtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
- תֵּ֝בֵ֗לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere Him.
- תֵבֵֽל׃tevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
- תֵ֝בֵ֗לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
- תֵּבֵ֑לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
- תֵּבֵ֥לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
- וְתֵבֵ֑לvetevelconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and world
The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- תֵּ֝בֵ֗לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.
- תֵּ֭בֵלtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
before the LORD, for He is coming— He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.
- תֵּבֵ֥לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
- תֵּבֵ֑לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.
- תֵּ֝בֵ֗לtevelnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: world
before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
- תֵּבֵ֥לtevelnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: world
Proverbs
two uses
before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.
- תֵּבֵֽל׃tevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.
- בְּתֵבֵ֣לbetevelpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in world of
Isaiah
nine uses
I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
- תֵּבֵל֙tevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
- תֵּבֵ֛לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
- תֵבֵ֖לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.
- תֵבֵ֖לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
- תֵּבֵ֑לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
- תֵבֵֽל׃tevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
- תֵבֵֽל׃tevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
- תֵבֵ֖לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
- תֵּבֵ֖לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Jeremiah
two uses
The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
- תֵּבֵ֖לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
- תֵּבֵ֖לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Lamentations
one use
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
- תֵבֵ֑לtevelnoun · feminine singulartagged: world
Nahum
one use
The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.
- וְתֵבֵ֖לvetevelconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and world
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.