תֵּבֵלtêbêl

world, poetic synonym of אֶרֶץ (Nahum 1:5; Isaiah 14:17; Job 37:12; Proverbs 8:31; 1 Samuel 2:8)

Pronunciation: tay-bale' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8398

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 36 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 2:8 He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage dump. He sets them among princes, placing them in seats of honor. For all the earth is the Lord’s, and he has set the world in order.
  • 2 Samuel 22:16 Then at the command of the Lord, at the blast of his breath, the bottom of the sea could be seen, and the foundations of the earth were laid bare.
  • 1 Chronicles 16:30 Let all the earth tremble before him. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken.
  • Job 18:18 They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world.
  • Job 34:13 Did someone else put the world in his care? Who set the whole world in place?
  • Job 37:12 The clouds churn about at his direction. They do whatever he commands throughout the earth.
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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).