Lexical Summary qebol: something in front, a military siege engine Original Word: קֹבֶלTransliteration: qebol Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-bel) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: something in front, a military siege engine Meaning: something in front, a military siege engine Strong's Concordance war From qabal in the sense of confronting (as standing opposite in order to receive); a battering-ram -- war. see HEBREW qabal Brown-Driver-Briggs H6904. qebol [קְבֹל] noun [masculine] 1 >something in front specifically an attacking-engine (compare front; , advance to attack, so הקביל Ecclus 12:5), Ezekiel 26:9 קָֽבֳלּוֺ מְחִי the stroke of his attacking-engine (on the form ‡obolló, from קְבֹל for ‡ªbªl, see Ol§ 169 Köii. 68 f.; and compare קָֽטֳנִּי from קְטֹן for ‡ª‰ªn, קָֽרֶבְכֶם קָֽטָבְךָ,; and on the בֳָ, Ges§ 93q). 2 construct קָֽבָלעָֿם (‡obol) 2 Kings 15:10, explained formerly as before the people, i.e. publicly (compare Biblical Aramaicaic קֳבֵל before); but the Aramaic is surprising and הָעָם needed: read כְּיִבְלְעָם in Ibleam, with ᵐ5 of L (confirming earlier conjectures of GrG ii. 1. 99 StaGi. 575), Dr Klo Benz Kit and others |
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