סֵבֶל
sevel · burden
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5447 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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sevel (סֵבֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burden”.
A weight carried on the shoulders; hence the forced labor imposed on a people.
How to say it
se·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
- A load carried on the shoulders; forced labor.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- 1 Kings 11:28
And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of worth; and Solomon saw the young man, that he was one who did the work, and he appointed him over all the burden of the house of Joseph.
- Nehemiah 4:17
Those who built on the wall and those who carried the burden were loading it: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held the weapon.
- Psalms 81:6
I removed his shoulder from the burden; his palms were freed from the basket.