סֹבֶל

sovel · burden, load

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5448 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

sovel (סֹבֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burden, load”.

A burden, a load that is carried.

How to say it

so·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

  1. The weight an oppressor lays on the shoulder.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Isaiah 9:4

    For the yoke of its burden and the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its oppressor, you have shattered as on the day of Midian.

  • Isaiah 10:27

    And it will happen on that day that his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be destroyed because of fatness.

  • Isaiah 14:25

    to break Assyria in my land, and on my mountains I will trample him; and his yoke will depart from them, and his burden will depart from his shoulder.”