H2259 - חֹבֵל (chôbêl)

H2259 חֹבֵל (chôbêl) kho-bale'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

pilot

Strong's Definition

a sailor

Derivation: active participle from H2254 (חָבַל) (in the sense of handling ropes);

KJV Usage: pilot, shipmaster.

TWOT Reference: 592c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) sailor, seaman

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2942

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

sailor, seaman

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֹבֵל chôbêl BDB Definition: 1) sailor, seaman Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: active participle from H2254 (in the sense of handling ropes) Same Word by TWOT Number: 592c Total KJV Occurrences: 5

Bible Occurrences (5)

27:8 27:27 27:28 27:29

1:6

Ezekiel 27:8

The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were [there] as your captains.

Ezekiel 27:27

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 27:28

The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.

Ezekiel 27:29

All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.

Jonah 1:6

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.