סַבָּלçabbâl
burden-bearer, only absolute ׳ ס collective (Nehemiah 4:4; 2 Chronicles 2:1; 2 Chronicles 2:17; 2 Chronicles 34:13; 1 Kings 5:29)
Pronunciation: sab-bawl' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5449
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 5:15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers, 80,000 quarry workers in the hill country,
- 2 Chronicles 2:2 He enlisted a force of 70,000 laborers, 80,000 men to quarry stone in the hill country, and 3,600 foremen.
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 He assigned 70,000 of them as common laborers, 80,000 as quarry workers in the hill country, and 3,600 as foremen.
- 2 Chronicles 34:13 were put in charge of the laborers of the various trades. Still others assisted as secretaries, officials, and gatekeepers.
- Nehemiah 4:10 Then the people of Judah began to complain, “The workers are getting tired, and there is so much rubble to be moved. We will never be able to build the wall by ourselves.”
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).