STRONGS NUMBER H8398


Word Summary
tebel: world
Original Word: תֵּבֵל
Transliteration: tebel
Phonetic Spelling: (tay-bale')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: world
Meaning: the earth, the globe, its inhabitants, a particular land
Strong's Concordance
confusion

Apparently from balal; mixture, i.e. Unnatural bestiality -- confusion.

see HEBREW balal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8398. tebel

תֵּבֵלnoun feminineNahum 1:5 (apparently masculine Isaiah 14:17) world, poetic synonym of אֶרֶץ‎ (perhaps originally as productive, compare בּוּל יְבוּל,‎, but this sense not clearly maintained; compare also Assyrian tabalu in êlî tabali, by land, "" êlî nâru, by water (river) MeissnZA 1889, iv. 3, 261, 263, 265 f. SASmAssyrian Letters iv. plate viii. ix, 1. 33) — usually absolute ׳ת‎ (no article), construct Job 37:12; Proverbs 8:31; world, usually "" ׃אֶרֶץ1 Samuel 2:8 (׳י‎ set ׳ת‎ on אֶרֶץ מְצֻקֵי‎), Isaiah 14:21; 24:4; 34:1; Jeremiah 10:12 = 51:15, 1 Chronicles 16:30 (= Psalm 96:10 below) Job 34:13; Psalm 19:5; 77:19 = 97:4; 90:2; 96:13 (+ עַמִּים‎), 98:9 (+ id.); בָהּ ׳ת וְישְׁבֵיNahum 1:5; Psalm 24:1; ת ׳ישְׁבֵי33:8; Isaiah 18:3 ("" ארץ שֹׁכְנֵי‎), 26:9, 18; Lamentations 4:12; ׳ת וּמְלֹאָהּ‎ Lam 89:12 (+ שָׁמַיִם‎, compare ומלאה ארץ‎ Lam 24:1); ת ׳עַלמְּֿנֵי אָ֑רְצָהJob 37:12 upon the face of the world of earth (earthly world, the whole expanse of earth); ׳בְּת אַרְצוֺProverbs 8:31; on the other hand ת ׳עַפְרוֺת8:26; ׳ת‎ alone Job 18:18; other combinations ׳ת וּמְלֹאָהּPsalm 50:12 (compare 89:12 above); ׳מְּנֵיתֿIsaiah 27:6 (compare Job 37:12 above); ת ׳מֹסְדוֺת2 Samuel 22:16 foundations of the world = Psalm 18:16, compare ת ׳תִּכּוֺן93:1; 96:10 (= 1 Chronicles 16:30); world as object of ׳י‎s judgment 9:9 ("" לְאֻמִּים‎; see also 1Chron 96:13 above), compare ׳ת בה וישׁבי‎ 1Chron 98:7 ("" יַם‎), Isaiah 13:11 ("" רשׁעים‎); as devastated by Babylonian conqueror 14:17 ("" עָרָיו‎).