יוֹבֵלyôwbêl

ram, ram's horn, cornet

Pronunciation: yo-bale' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3104

Meanings

1. ram, only in combination (Joshua 6:5; Joshua 6:4; Joshua 6:6)

2. designation of 50th year, marked by blowing of cornets (Leviticus 25:13; Leviticus 25:28; Leviticus 25:40)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 27 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 19:13 No hand may touch the person or animal that crosses the boundary; instead, stone them or shoot them with arrows. They must be put to death.’ However, when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, then the people may go up on the mountain.”
  • Leviticus 25:10 Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan.
  • Leviticus 25:11 This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don’t gather the grapes from your unpruned vines.
  • Leviticus 25:12 It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy. But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own.
  • Leviticus 25:13 In the Year of Jubilee each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors.
  • Leviticus 25:15 When you buy land from your neighbor, the price you pay must be based on the number of years since the last jubilee. The seller must set the price by taking into account the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).