זָבַל
to exalt
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2082 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb זבל centers on the idea of “to exalt.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Genesis dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Genesis 30:20. Related forms include דבלה, זבול and זבולון. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2082 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Dwell 1×
- American Standard Version: Dwell 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Will honor me 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Will honor me 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2082 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2082 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2082 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2082 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Qal) to exalt, honour, (possible) dwell exaltedly
Word origin
[ זָבַל ] vb. prob. exalt, honour
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זָבַל I
- to entertain liberally.—Denom. זְבוּל.
- (cmp. זבח) to offer to idols, make merry with idolatrous ceremonies. Ab. Zar. 18ᵇ שמְזַבְּלִין שם וכ׳ because they have there (in their theatres) idolatrous entertainments; Tosef. ib. II, 5 (ed. Zuck. מזבחין). Y. Ber. IX, 13ᵇ bot. if one sees people מז׳ לע"ז engaged in idolatrous services; a. fr.
זָבַל II
- , Pi. זִבֵּל (denom. of זֶבֶל) to deposit foliage in the field for manure, to manure. Shebi. III, 2 עד כמה מְזַבְּלִין how many piles may be deposited? Ib. II, 2 מְזָבְּלִין וכ׳ you may manure &c. Keth. 10ᵇ the rain waters ומְזַבֵּל and softens (corresp. to מוג, Ps. LXV, 11, cmp. בּוּל II). Cant. R. to I, 1 אנחנו לא נְזַבֵּל וכ׳ (not נזבלים) should we not improve (our minds) even as those carrying out foliage and straw?; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְזוּבָּל manured. Y. M. Kat. I, 80ᵇ e.g. Psalms 65:11
- , Nithpa. נִזְדַּבֵּל to be manured. Midr. Sam. ch. IV.—Ab. Zar. 49ᵃ שדה שנִזְדַּבְּלָה וכ׳ a field which has been manured with material connected with idolatry (foliage from a worshipped tree &c.).
זְבַל
- —Ithpa. אִיזְדַּבֵּל to be manured. Ab. Zar. 49ᵃ (read אִזְדַּבְּלָא).
זֶבֶל
- (cmp. Assyr. zabâlu, KAT2, p. 550; cmp. צָבַר) [heaped up,] esp. foliage piled up for forming manure, manure, deposits. Sabb. IV, 1 you must not keep dishes warm for the Sabbath בז׳ וכ׳ in foliage … whether dry or moist. Ab. Zar. III, 8 (48ᵇ) והוָֹה להן לז׳ and serves for them as manure. Yoma V, 6 נמכרין … לז׳ is sold to the gardeners for forming manure. Tosef. B. Mets. XI, 8 זִיבְלוֹ his heaped-up foliage. B. Mets. V, 7 (72ᵇ) עד שיהיה לו ז׳ באשפתו Ms. M. (ed. אלא א"כ היתה וכ׳) unless he has manure piled up; a. fr.—Pl. זְבָלִים. Shebi. III, 1 מאימתי מוציאין ז׳ וכ׳ when may deposits of foliage be carried out for piling up in the fields.—Gen. R. s. 31 לז׳ (Snh. 108ᵇ sing.) for deposits of excrements &c.—Tosef. B. Mets. l. c. שעת הז׳ the season for carrying out foliage; a. fr.—בית הז׳ a field dependent on manuring. Men. VIII, 3 (85ᵃ).
זַבָּל
- (preced.) one carrying foliage for making dung.—Pl. זַבָּלִים. Cant. R. to I, 1 ז׳ ותבנים carriers of foliage and of straw.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
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Septuagint verse parallels
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