Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
burden
Usage: burden, forced labour, compulsory service, burden bearing
Cebalah means “burden” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5450 — physiosis (“swelling”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5450 סְבָלָה (cbalah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. cbalah (seb-aw-law') n-f. 1. porterage [from H5447] It has 6 linked Bible usages across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include burdens. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
cbalah (seb-aw-law') n-f. 1. porterage [from H5447] KJV: burden. Root(s): H5447
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5450. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
burden
Usage: burden, forced labour, compulsory service, burden bearing
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render cbalah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
6 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5450.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5450, grouped by book.
Cebalah (Strong's H5450) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "burden". cbalah (seb-aw-law') n-f. 1. porterage [from H5447]
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's H5450 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5450 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as burdens. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.