יָבַל

yaval · bring, lead

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2986 · appears 18 times in the Bible

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What it means

yaval (יָבַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bring, lead”.

To bring, to lead; sometimes in a procession, with solemnity.

How to say it

ya·val

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. To bring someone or something to another place, as a gift, tribute or in procession.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • carried ×6
  • led ×5
  • will bring ×4
  • I will lead them ×1
  • bring ×1
  • will be brought ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Job 10:19

    I would be as though I had not been; from the belly to the grave I would have been carried.

  • Job 21:30

    that for the day of calamity the evil man is reserved, for the day of furies they are carried off?

  • Job 21:32

    And he to the graves is carried, and over the heap watch is kept.

  • Psalms 45:14

    In embroidered garments she is led to the king; virgins behind her, her companions, are brought to you.

  • Psalms 45:15

    They are led with gladness and jubilation; they enter the palace of the king.

  • Psalms 60:9

    Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

  • Psalms 68:29

    From your temple over Jerusalem to you kings will bring tribute.

  • Psalms 76:11

    Make vows and fulfill them to YHWH your Elohim; let all who surround him bring tribute to the Fearsome One.

  • Psalms 108:10

    Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

  • Isaiah 18:7

    At that time tribute will be brought to YHWH Tsevaot, a people tall and smooth-skinned, and from a people feared from that time and onward, a nation of strength, strength, and of trampling, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of YHWH Tsevaot, Mount Zion.

  • Isaiah 23:7

    Is this your exultant city, whose origin is from the days of old? Its feet carried it far away to reside as an alien.

  • Isaiah 53:7

    He was mistreated, and he humbled himself, and he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a ewe that before her shearers is silent, and he did not open his mouth.

  • Isaiah 55:12

    For with gladness you will go out, and in peace you will be led; the mountains and the hills will break forth before you into joyful shouting, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

  • Jeremiah 11:19

    But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter, and I did not know that against me they devised schemes: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will not be remembered anymore.”

  • Jeremiah 31:9

    With weeping they will come, and with supplications I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of water, on a straight road on which they will not stumble; for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

  • Hosea 10:6

    It too will be carried to Assyria, a tribute to King Jareb; Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his counsel.

  • Hosea 12:1

    Ephraim feeds on wind, and pursues the east wind; all day he multiplies lies and destruction; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

  • Zephaniah 3:10

    From beyond the rivers of Cush my suppliants, the daughter of my dispersed ones, will bring my offering.