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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 - When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one efah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - Then shall you go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tavor; and there shall meet you there three men going up to God to Beit-El, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Pelishtim: and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18 - Then Avigayil made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5 - David and all the house of Yisra'el played before the LORD with all manner of instruments made of fir-wood, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with castanets, and with cymbals.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 - When David was a little past the top of the ascent, behold, Tziva the servant of Mefivoshet met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 - The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8 - David and all Yisra'el played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:20 - and Zekharyah, and Aziel, and Shemiramot, and Yechi'el, and Unni, and Eli'av, and Ma`aseyah, and Benayah, with psalteries set to `Alamot;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:28 - Thus all Yisra'el brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and harps.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:5 - Asaf the chief, and second to him Zekharyah, Ye`i'el, and Shemiramot, and Yechi'el, and Mattityah, and Eli'av, and Benayah, and Obed-edom, and Ye`i'el, with psalteries and with harps; and Asaf with cymbals, sounding aloud;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1 - Moreover David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaf, and of Heman, and of Yedutun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work according to their service was:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:6 - All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaf, Yedutun, and Heman being under the order of the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaf, Heman, Yedutun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty Kohanim sounding with trumpets;)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Yehudah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:28 - They came to Yerushalayim with psalteries and harps and trumpets to the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:25 - He set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the mitzvah of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Natan the prophet; for the mitzvah was of the LORD by his prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:27 - At the dedication of the wall of Yerushalayim they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Yerushalayim, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:37 - Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:2 - Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:8 - Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:22 - I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:2 - Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, The pleasant lyre with the harp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:3 - With the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, And with the melody of the lyre.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:2 - Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:9 - I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:3 - Praise him with the sounding of the shofar! Praise him with harp and lyre!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12 - The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; But they don't regard the work of the LORD, Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:11 - Your pomp is brought down to She'ol, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and worms cover you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:24 - They shall hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 - Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:12 - Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:2 - The precious sons of Tziyon, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, 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! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5 - Who strum on the strings of a harp; Who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
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