Aramaic word · H5446

סְבַל

mesovlin

to bear

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

1) to bear a load

1a) (Poal) laid (participle)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 6:3 מְסֽוֹבְלִ֑ין [be] retained

    In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

    Here: The root means 'bear, carry'. Applied to foundations its exact sense is unclear: 'raised/laid', 'retained' (keeping the old foundation lines), or, if the previous word means fire-offerings, 'brought'. English 'firmly laid' is an interpretation.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.