saval · carry, bear a load

What it means

saval (סָבַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “carry, bear a load”.

Carry a load, bear a burden.

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. To carry a weight, or take on others' sorrows.
2. To weigh down and become a burden, like the grasshopper in old age.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bear ×3
• will bear ×3
• grows heavy ×1
• he bore them ×1
• heavily loaded ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×5
• Lamentations×1

• Genesis 49:15

  He saw a resting place, that it was good, and the land, that it was pleasant; so he bent his shoulder to bear burdens and became subject to forced labor.

• Psalms 144:14

  our oxen heavily loaded; no breach and no going out, and no outcry in our squares.

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  also of what is high they are afraid, and terrors are in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper grows heavy, and the caper fails, because the human being is going to his eternal house, and the mourners go around in the street;

• Isaiah 46:4

  and until old age I am the same, and until gray hair I will bear you; I have made you, and I will carry, and I will bear, and rescue.

• Isaiah 46:7

  They lift it on the shoulder, they bear it, and set it in its place, and it stands; from its spot it does not move; also, if one cries to it, it does not answer; from his distress it does not save him.

• Isaiah 53:4

  Surely our sicknesses he carried, and our pains he bore them; yet we considered him stricken, struck by Elohim and afflicted.

• Isaiah 53:11

  From the suffering of his soul he will see, and be satisfied; by his knowledge will declare righteous the righteous one, my servant, the many, and their iniquities he will bear.

• Lamentations 5:7

  Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their iniquities.

And 1 more times.