Chovel חֹבֵל
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| חֹבֵל | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | chovel |
| Strong's number | H2259 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | pilot |
| Occurrences | 5 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | Ezekiel (4) |
Chovel (Hebrew חֹבֵל, Strong's H2259) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “pilot”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
sailor, seaman
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | pilots (4) |
|---|---|
| BSB | captains (2), your captains (1), your sailors (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Chovel, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 27:8The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.
- Ezekiel 27:27Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.
- Ezekiel 27:28The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
- Ezekiel 27:29And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.
Jonah
- Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).