yovel · ram's horn, jubilee

What it means

yovel (יוֹבֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ram's horn, jubilee”.

Jubilee: the fiftieth year, when liberty was proclaimed and everyone returned to his land. The word also means the ram's horn blown to announce it, and the sound of the horn.

How to say it

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

1. The fiftieth year, of freedom, when each returned to his land.
2. The horn of a ram, blown like a trumpet.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• jubilee ×21
• rams ×4
• ram ×2

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×20
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×5

• Exodus 19:13

  No hand shall touch him, for he shall surely be stoned or surely shot with arrows; whether animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall go up on the mountain.”

• Leviticus 25:10

  And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, and you shall return, each to his possession, and each to his clan you shall return.

• Leviticus 25:11

  That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows by itself and you shall not gather its unpruned vines.

• Leviticus 25:12

  For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; from the field you shall eat its produce.

• Leviticus 25:13

  In this year of jubilee you shall return, each to his possession.

• Leviticus 25:15

  According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor; according to the number of years of harvests he shall sell to you.

• Leviticus 25:28

  But if his hand does not find enough to give back to him, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the one who bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go free, and he shall return to his possession.

• Leviticus 25:30

  But if it is not redeemed before a full year is completed for it, then the house that is in the city that has a wall shall belong in perpetuity to the one who bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not go free in the jubilee.

• Leviticus 25:31

  But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be counted as the field of the land; they shall have redemption, and in the jubilee they shall go free.

• Leviticus 25:33

  And what one of the Levites redeems, the sale of a house in the city of his possession, shall go free in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 25:40

  He shall be with you as a hired worker, as a temporary resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

• Leviticus 25:50

  And he shall calculate with the one who bought him from the year he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the silver of his sale shall be according to the number of years; as the days of a hired worker it shall be with him.

• Leviticus 25:52

  And if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate with him; according to his years he shall pay back the price of his redemption.

• Leviticus 25:54

  And if he is not redeemed by these means, he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

• Leviticus 27:17

  If he consecrates his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand according to the valuation.

• Leviticus 27:18

  But if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest shall calculate for him the silver according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and it shall be deducted from the valuation.

• Leviticus 27:21

  And the field, when it goes free in the jubilee, shall be holy to YHWH, like a field completely devoted; it shall become the priest’s possession.

• Leviticus 27:23

  then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of the valuation until the year of jubilee, and he shall give the valuation on that day, as holy to YHWH.

• Leviticus 27:24

  In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to the one to whom the possession of the land belongs.

• Numbers 36:4

  And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel comes, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers their inheritance will be taken away.”

• Joshua 6:4

  And seven priests shall carry seven rams’ horns before the ark. And on the seventh day you shall go around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the horns.

• Joshua 6:5

  And it shall be, when they make a long blast with the horn of the ram, when you hear the sound of the horn, that all the people shall raise a great acclamation, and the wall of the city will fall in its place, and the people shall go up, each man straight ahead.”

• Joshua 6:6

  So Joshua son of Nun called to the priests and said to them, “Carry the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven rams’ horns before the ark of YHWH.”

• Joshua 6:8

  And it came about, when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before YHWH passed on and blew the horns, and the ark of the covenant of YHWH was going after them.

• Joshua 6:13

  And the seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before the ark of YHWH were going, going on and blowing the horns, and the armed men were going before them, and the rear guard was going after the ark of YHWH, going on and blowing the horns.

And 2 more times.