Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
world
Usage: world
Tebel means “habitable part” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8398 תֵּבֵל (tebel) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tebel (tay-bale') n-f. 1. the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited) 2. (by extension) the globe It has 36 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include earth, land, and israel. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tebel (tay-bale') n-f. 1. the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited) 2. (by extension) the globe 3. (by implication) its inhabitants 4. (specifically, a participle) land, as Israel, Egypt, Babylon [from H2986] KJV: habitable part, world. Root(s): H2986
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world
Usage: world
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tebel, 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.
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36 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
First 36 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8398.
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: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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 cannot be moved.
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.
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.
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
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 of the world will learn righteousness.
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
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.
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.
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.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8398, grouped by book.
Tebel (Strong's H8398) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "habitable part". tebel (tay-bale') n-f. 1. the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited) 2. (by extension) the globe
This page currently indexes 36 linked usages for Strong's H8398 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8398 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as earth, land, and israel. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.