סְבָלָה
sevala · burdens
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5450 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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sevala (סְבָלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burdens”.
The heavy labor imposed on a subject people.
How to say it
se·va·la
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
- Heavy labor forced on a people.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 1:11
So they set over them chiefs of forced labor to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Rameses.
- Exodus 2:11
In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
- Exodus 5:4
The king of Egypt said to them, “Why, Moses and Aaron, do you take the people away from their work? Go to your burdens!”
- Exodus 5:5
And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you make them cease from their burdens!”
- Exodus 6:6
Therefore say to the sons of Israel, ‘I am YHWH, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
- Exodus 6:7
I will take you for myself as a people, and I will be your Elohim; and you will know that I am YHWH your Elohim, who brings you out from under the burdens of Egypt.