חֹבֵל
chovel · sailor, captain
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2259 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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chovel (חֹבֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sailor, captain”.
"Chobel": a sailor who handles the ropes; "the chief of the chobel" is the ship's captain.
How to say it
cho·vel
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Seaman who handles ropes; the one who steers the ship.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- pilots ×4
- sailors ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezekiel 27:8
The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your wise men, Tyre, were in you; they were your pilots.
- Ezekiel 27:27
Your wealth and your wares, your exchange, your sailors and your pilots, those who repair your cracks, and those who carry on your exchange, and all your men of war who are in you, and all your assembly that is in your midst, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.
- Ezekiel 27:28
At the sound of the cry of your pilots the open lands will quake.
- Ezekiel 27:29
And they will come down from their ships, all who handle the oar, the sailors, all the pilots of the sea; on the land they will stand.
- Jonah 1:6
And the chief of the sailors came near to him and said to him, “What is the matter with you, sleeper? Arise, cry out to your god; perhaps that god will give a thought to us, and we will not perish.”