תֵּבֵל tevel

Hebrew word for “world” · Strong’s H8398 · used 36 times in 36 verses

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Meaning

world

How it is translated

Glosses given for tevel in context, with how often each is used:

• world 36

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 96 (2), Psalms 98 (2), Proverbs 8 (2), Isaiah 14 (2), Isaiah 26 (2), 1 Samuel 2 (1), 2 Samuel 22 (1), 1 Chronicles 16 (1), Job 18 (1), Job 34 (1)

Forms

• תבל 32
• ותבל 2
• ומתבל 1
• בתבל 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tevel more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מְלֹא melo “fullness” 5
• בַּל bal “not” 5
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 9
• כּוּן kun “to establish” 6
• אַף aph “also” 5
• חוּל chul “to twist” 4
• צֶדֶק tsedeq “righteousness” 4
• מֵישָׁר meshar “uprightness” 3
• מוֹט mot “to shake” 3
• מוֹסָדָה mosadah “foundation” 2
• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 4
• גְּעָרָה gearah “rebuke” 2

Key verses

The verses using tevel that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 2:8 — He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory:…
• Psalms 24:1 — [A Psalm of David.] The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
• Psalms 90:2 — Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
• Psalms 93:1 — The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it…
• Psalms 96:10 — Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
• Psalms 96:13 — Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
• Psalms 98:9 — Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
• Isaiah 26:9 — With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants…
• Isaiah 27:6 — He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
• Isaiah 34:1 — Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
• Jeremiah 10:12 — He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
• Nahum 1:5 — The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.