Strong’s
H2259Noun, masculine5 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Ezekiel 27:8חֹבְלָיִךְ
The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.
- Jonah 1:6הַחֹבֵל
The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
Brown-Driver-Briggs
חֹבֵל n.m. sailor (i.e. rope-puller)
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.