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Lexicon :: Strong's H5035 - neḇel

Aa
נֶבֶל
Transliteration
neḇel
Pronunciation
neh'-bel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1284a,1284b

Strong’s Definitions

נֶבֶל nebel, neh'-bel; or נֵבֶל nêbel; from H5034; a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form):—bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H5035 in the following manner: psalteries (22x), bottle (8x), viol (4x), flagons (1x), pitchers (1x), vessel (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H5035 in the following manner: psalteries (22x), bottle (8x), viol (4x), flagons (1x), pitchers (1x), vessel (1x), variant (1x).

  1. a skin-bag, jar, pitcher

    1. skin-bottle, skin

    2. jar, pitcher (earthen)

  2. harp, lute, guitar, musical instrument

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נֶבֶל nebel, neh'-bel; or נֵבֶל nêbel; from H5034; a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form):—bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol.
STRONGS H5035: Abbreviations
† I. נֵ֫בֶל noun masculineJeremiah 13:12 1 skin-bottle, skin; 2. jar, pitcher; — נֵ֫בֶל absolute 1 Samuel 10:5 +; construct 1 Samuel 10:3 + (on נֶכֶל see Baer1 Samuel 1:24); —
1. skin of wine, נֵ֫בֶל יַיִן 1 Samuel 1:24; 1 Samuel 10:3; 2 Samuel 16:1, compare also Jeremiah 13:12 (twice in verse); plural נִבְלֵי יַיִן 1 Samuel 25:18 : figurative נִבְלֵי שָׁמַיִם Job 38:37 i.e. clouds (|| שְׁחָקִים).
2. earthen jar, pitcher: figurative of connections of Eliakim כְּלֵי נְבָלִים Isaiah 22:24; יְנַפִּ֑צוּ נִבְלֵיהֶם Jeremiah 48:12 (|| כֵּלִים יָרִיקוּ) in figure of Moab (compare Psalm 2:9); נִבְלֵיתֶֿרֶשׂ Lamentations 4:2 simile of men of Judah (|| מַעֲשֵׂה יְדֵי יוֺצֵר); simile of destruction of Judah, שֵׁבֶר נֵ֫כֶל יוֺצְרִים Isaiah 30:14.


† II. נֵ֫בֶל, נֶ֫בֶל noun masculinePsalm 57:9 a musical instrument, either a portable harp, or a lute, guitar (with bulging resonance-body at lower end); (perhaps = I. נֵבֶל, and then shape seems to favour lute; perhaps independent word, e.g. Egyptian loan-word, compare nfr, lute, WeHpt 222); — absolute נֵ֫בֶל 1 Samuel 10:5 + 3 times, נֶ֫בֶל Psalm 71:22 + 3 times; נָ֑בֶל Amos 6:5 + 2 times; plural נְבָלִים 2 Samuel 6:5 + 4 times; suffix נְבָלֶיךָ Amos 5:23; Isaiah 14:11; — harp (or lute), played at feasts and religious ceremonies, probably less simple, cheap and common than כִּנּוֺר (which see;; often named with נ׳): — as mark of luxury, revelry Amos 5:23; Amos 6:5; Amos 14:11, so Amos 5:12 (תֹּף חָלִיל כִנּוֺר נ׳), also (not in bad sense) 1 Kings 10:12; played by wandering band of prophets 1 Samuel 10:5 (list as Isaiah 5:12); in worship 2 Samuel 6:5; elsewhere only Psalms, Chronicles, always in worship: Psalm 57:9; Psalm 81:3; Psalm 92:4; Psalm 108:3; Psalm 150:3; כְּלִי נֶבֶל Psalm 71:22; עָשׂוֺר נ׳ a harp with ten strings Psalm 33:2; Psalm 144:9; 1 Chronicles 13:8; 1 Chronicles 15:16, 20, 28; 1 Chronicles 16:5 (כְּלֵי נְבָלִים), 1 Chronicles 25:1, 6; 2 Chronicles 5:12; 9:11; 20:28; 29:25; Nehemiah 12:27. — compare further BenzArchaeology 273 ff. NowArchaeology i. 273 ff. DrAmos 234 ff. WeHpt 222 ff.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

1:24; 1:24; 10:3; 10:3; 10:5; 10:5; 10:5; 25:18

2 Samuel

6:5; 6:5; 16:1

1 Kings

10:12

1 Chronicles

13:8; 15:16; 15:20; 15:28; 16:5; 25:1; 25:6

2 Chronicles

5:12; 9:11; 20:28; 29:25

Nehemiah

12:27

Job

38:37

Psalms

2:9; 33:2; 57:9; 57:9; 71:22; 71:22; 81:3; 92:4; 108:3; 144:9; 150:3

Isaiah

5:12; 14:11; 22:24; 30:14

Jeremiah

13:12; 13:12; 48:12

Lamentations

4:2

Amos

5:12; 5:23; 5:23; 6:5; 6:5

H5035

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Strong's Number H5035 matches the Hebrew נֶבֶל (neḇel),
which occurs 38 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:24 - Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - Then you are to go on from there, and when you come to the oak-tree of Tabor, you will see three men going up to God to Beth-el, one having with him three young goats and another three cakes of bread and another a skin full of wine:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - After that you will come to Gibeah, the hill of God, where an armed force of the Philistines is stationed: and when you come to the town, you will see a band of prophets coming down from the high place with instruments of music before them; and they will be acting like prophets:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18 - Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5 - And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 - And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 - And from the sandal-wood the king made pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody: never has such sandal-wood been seen to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8 - Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:20 - And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel, Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah, with corded instruments put to Alamoth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:28 - So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, with loud cries and with horns and brass and corded instruments sounding loudly.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:5 - Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1 - Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:6 - All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - And the Levites who made the music, all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and brothers, robed in fair linen, were in their places with their brass and corded instruments at the east side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests blowing horns;)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - And with the sandal-wood the king made steps for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody; never before had such been seen in the land of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:28 - So they came to Jerusalem with corded instruments and wind-instruments into the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:25 - Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:27 - And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:37 - By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:2 - Give praise to the Lord on the corded instrument; make melody to him with instruments of music.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:8 - You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:22 - I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:2 - Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:3 - On a ten-corded instrument, and on an instrument of music with a quiet sound.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:2 - Give out your sounds, O corded instruments: the dawn will be awaking with my song.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:9 - I will make a new song to you, O God; I will make melody to you on an instrument of ten cords.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:3 - Give him praise with the sound of the horn: give him praise with corded instruments of music.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12 - And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:11 - Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:24 - And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 - So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:12 - So truly, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send to him men who will have him turned over till there is no more wine in his vessels, and his wine-skins will be completely broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:2 - The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:23 - Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5 - Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;
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