tevel · world

What it means

tevel (תֵּבֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “world”.

The world: the inhabited earth.

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 inhabited earth, which God founded and keeps firm.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×15
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Nahum×1

• 1 Samuel 2:8

  He raises the poor from the dust; from the ash heap he lifts the needy, to make them sit with nobles, and he makes them inherit a throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are YHWH’s, and on them he has set the world.

• 2 Samuel 22:16

  The channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare at the rebuke of YHWH, at the breath of the wind of his nostrils.

• 1 Chronicles 16:30

  Tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world stands firm; it will not be moved.

• Job 18:18

  They drive him from light into darkness, and from the world they chase him away.

• Job 34:13

  Who put in his charge the earth? And who set up the whole world?

• Job 37:12

  And it turns around by his designs, to do all that he commands them over the face of the world, the earth.

• Psalms 9:8

  And he will judge the world in righteousness; he will judge the peoples with uprightness.

• Psalms 18:15

  The channels of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, YHWH, at the breath of the wind of your nostrils.

• Psalms 19:4

  Through all the earth their line has gone out, and to the end of the world their words. For the sun he has set a tent in them,

• Psalms 24:1

  Of David. A psalm. The earth belongs to YHWH, and all that fills it, the world and those who dwell in it.

• Psalms 33:8

  Let all the earth fear YHWH; of him let all the inhabitants of the world be afraid.

• Psalms 50:12

  If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for mine is the world and what fills it.

• Psalms 77:18

  The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightning flashes lit up the world; the earth shuddered and quaked.

• Psalms 89:11

  Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth; the world and what fills it, you founded them.

• Psalms 90:2

  Before the mountains were born, or you gave birth to the earth and the world, even from forever to forever you are El.

• Psalms 93:1

  YHWH reigns; with grandeur he has clothed himself; YHWH has clothed himself, with strength he has girded himself; the world also is firm; it will not be shaken.

• Psalms 96:10

  Say among the nations, “YHWH reigns!” The world also is firm; it will not be shaken; he will judge the peoples with uprightness.

• Psalms 96:13

  before YHWH, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth; he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his faithfulness.

• Psalms 97:4

  His lightnings lit up the world; the earth saw and trembled.

• Psalms 98:7

  Let the sea thunder, and what fills it, the world and those who dwell in it.

• Psalms 98:9

  before YHWH, for he comes to judge the earth; he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with uprightness.

• Proverbs 8:26

  while he had not yet made the earth and the fields, or the beginning of the dust of the world.

• Proverbs 8:31

  playing in the world of his earth, and my delights were with the children of man.

• Isaiah 13:11

  And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, and the arrogance of tyrants I will bring low.

• Isaiah 14:17

  who made the world like a wilderness and tore down its cities, and his prisoners he did not release to their home?’

• Isaiah 14:21

  Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, so that they may not rise and possess the earth and fill the face of the world with cities.”

• Isaiah 18:3

  All the inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, look! And when the horn is blown, listen!

• Isaiah 24:4

  The earth mourns, withers; the world languishes, withers; the exalted of the people of the earth languish.

• Isaiah 26:9

  With my soul I have longed for you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I seek you early, for when your judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

• Isaiah 26:18

  We were pregnant, we writhed; as it were we gave birth to wind. Acts of salvation we do not work for the earth, and the inhabitants of the world do not fall.

• Isaiah 27:6

  In the days to come Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and sprout, and they will fill the face of the world with produce.

• Isaiah 34:1

  Draw near, nations, to hear, and peoples, pay attention! Let the earth hear, and what fills it, the world and all that comes forth from it.

• Jeremiah 10:12

  He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.

• Jeremiah 51:15

  He made the earth by his power, he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.

• Lamentations 4:12

  The kings of the earth did not believe, nor all the inhabitants of the world, that adversary and enemy would enter the gates of Jerusalem.

• Nahum 1:5

  The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt; and the earth heaves at his presence, and the world and all who dwell in it.