מַבָּט
mabat · hope, expectation
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4007 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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mabat (מַבָּט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hope, expectation”.
Hope: what one looks to and expects.
How to say it
ma·bat
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
- What one looks to with trust.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hope ×2
- expectation ×1
Where it appears
- Isaiah 20:5
And they will be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and because of Egypt, their beauty.
- Isaiah 20:6
And the inhabitant of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from before the king of Assyria! And how will we escape?’”
- Zechariah 9:5
Ashkelon will see it and fear, and Gaza, and will writhe greatly, and Ekron, for her expectation has been put to shame; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.