sabal · burden-bearer

What it means

sabal (סַבָּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burden-bearer”.

One who carries loads on his shoulders. From the same root as "burdens" in Exodus 1:11.

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. One who bears loads on the shoulder.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• carriers ×3
• burden ×1
• carrier ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Nehemiah×1

• 1 Kings 5:15

  And Solomon had seventy thousand burden bearers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,

• 2 Chronicles 2:2

  Solomon counted seventy thousand men as carriers, and eighty thousand men as stonecutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred who directed them.

• 2 Chronicles 2:18

  He made of them seventy thousand carriers, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred who directed, to make the people work.

• 2 Chronicles 34:13

  were over the carriers and were directing all who did work in every service; and of the Levites there were scribes, supervisors, and gatekeepers.

• Nehemiah 4:10

  And Judah said, “The strength of the carrier has faltered, and the rubble is much, and we will not be able to build on the wall.”