H2988 - יָבָל (yâbâl)

H2988 יָבָל (yâbâl) yaw-bawl'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

from 2986; a stream

KJV Usage: (water-)course, stream

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

יָבָל (ya.val) — stream. 1) a stream, watercourse 1a) as irrigating

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

יָבָל (H2988 · H2989)

noun m · יבל

Waterbodies

streams = course of impetuously flowing water; ≈ probably evokes the image of seasonal streams fed by rain, assuring agricultural growth, a sign of God's blessing

ISA 30:25 · ISA 44:4

name · יבל

Names of People

Jabal = man; ◄ son of Lamech; descendant of Cain; ► first to live in tents and raise sheep and goats

GEN 4:20

Timothy L. Wilt; Enio R. Mueller

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[יָבָל] n.[m.] watercourse, stream (prop. conduit), as irrigating base