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Lexicon :: Strong's H5035 - neḇel

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נֶבֶל
Transliteration
neḇel
Pronunciation
neh'-bel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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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 Box 1Sa 1:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:24 - And she took him up with her when she had weaned him, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a flask of wine, and brought him to the house of Jehovah to Shiloh; and the boy was young.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - And thou shalt go on forward from thence, and shalt come to the oak of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God, to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three cakes of bread, and another carrying a flask of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where are the outposts of the Philistines; and it shall come to pass, when thou comest thither, into the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with lute and tambour and pipe and harp before them; and they themselves prophesying.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18 - And Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skin-bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred raisin-cakes, and two hundred fig-cakes, and laid them on asses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:5 - And David and all the house of Israel played before Jehovah on all manner of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, and with lutes, and with tambours, and with sistra, and with cymbals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 - And when David was a little past the summit, behold, Ziba, Mephibosheth's servant, met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred raisin-cakes, and a hundred cakes of summer fruits, and a flask of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 - And the king made of the sandal-wood a balustrade for the house of Jehovah, and for the king's house, and harps and lutes for the singers. There came no such sandal-wood, nor was there seen to this day.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:8 - And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with lutes, and with tambours, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren, the singers, with instruments of music, lutes, and harps, and cymbals, that they should sound aloud, lifting up the voice with joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:20 - and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with lutes on Alamoth;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:28 - And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with shouting, and with sound of the trumpet, and with clarions, and with cymbals, playing aloud with lutes and harps.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:5 - Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with instruments of lutes and with harps; and Asaph sounding with cymbals;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1 - And David and the captains of the host separated for the service those of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun who were to prophesy with harps and lutes and cymbals; and the number of the men employed according to their service was:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:6 - All these were under the direction of their fathers Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman, for song in the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, lutes and harps, for the service of the house of God, under the direction of the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - and the Levites the singers, all they of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, clad in byssus, with cymbals and lutes and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets),

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - And the king made of the sandal-wood stairs for the house of Jehovah, and for the king's house, and harps and lutes for the singers. And there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:28 - And they came to Jerusalem with lutes and harps and trumpets, to the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:25 - And he set the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with lutes, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and of Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Jehovah through his prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:27 - And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to hold the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, lutes and harps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:37 - Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:2 - Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp; sing psalms unto him with the ten-stringed lute.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 57:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:8 - Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:22 - I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, my God; unto thee will I sing psalms with the harp, thou holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:2 - Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:3 - Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute; upon the Higgaion with the harp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:2 - Awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:9 - O God, I will sing a new song unto thee; with the ten-stringed lute will I sing psalms unto thee:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 150:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:3 - Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with lute and harp;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12 - And harp and lyre, tambour and flute, and wine are in their banquets; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, nor do they see the operation of his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:11 - -- Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:24 - and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all the small vessels, as well the vessels of cups as all the vessels of flagons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - And he shall break it as the breaking of a potter's vessel, that is broken in pieces unsparingly; and in the pieces of it there shall not be found a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water out of the cistern.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 - And thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Every skin shall be filled with wine. And they will say unto thee, Do we not very well know that every skin shall be filled with wine?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:12 - Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will send unto him pourers that shall pour him off, and shall empty his vessels, and break in pieces his flagons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:2 - The sons of Zion, so precious, 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 Box Amo 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:23 - Take away from me the noise of thy songs, and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5 - that chant to the sound of the lute, and invent them instruments of music, like David;
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