Strong’s H2259
חֹבֵל — chôbêl
חֹבֵל (chôbêl, Strong’s H2259) means: a sailor.
a sailor
- H2259
- /kho-bale'/
- 5× in the Bible
- Transliteration
- chôbêl
- Pronunciation
- kho-bale'
- Occurrences
- 5
Meaning
- Hebrew
- חֹבֵל
- Definition
- a sailor
- Derivation
- active participle from H2254 (חָבַל) (in the sense of handling ropes);
- King James Version renders it as
- pilot, shipmaster.
Derived from
- חָבַל châbalH2254 · to wind tightly · 27×
Where it appears
The first verses that use chôbêl (5 times in all).
Sources
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