יְבוּל
produce
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2981 appears in the Book of Deuteronomy — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 11:17 יְבוּלָ֑/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
- Deuteronomy 32:22 וִֽ/יבֻלָ֔/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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.
יבול — transliterated yᵉbûwl — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “produce.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “increase” in the King James Version, “produce” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 13 verses across 9 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Leviticus 26:4. It shares a root with יבל, אובל and יבל. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2981 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 3 verses 23%
- Leviticus 2 verses 15%
- Deuteronomy 2 verses 15%
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 13 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 38%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 31%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 31%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Increase 10×, Fruit 2×
- American Standard Version: Increase 9×, Fruit 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Produce 7×, Crops 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Produce 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2981 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2981 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2981 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2981 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- produce, fruit, produce (of the soil)
Word origin
n.m. Jb 20:28 produce of soil;—abs. י׳ Hb 3:17; cstr. id. Ju 6:4 Jb 20:28; sf. יְבוּלָהּ Dt 11:17 + 7 times; יְבֻלָהּ Dt 32:22; יְבוּלָם ψ 78:46;—produce: י׳ הָאָרֶץ Ju 6:4; אֶרֶץ וִיבֻלָהּ Dt 32:22; וְהָאָרֶץ כָּֽלְאָה יְבוּלָהּ Hg 1:10; sf. ψ 78:46 (‖ יְגִיעַ); especially וְנָֽתְנָה הָאָרֶץ יְבוּלָהּ Lv 26:4 the land shall yield its produce, so v 20 Ez 34:27 Zc 8:12 (all ‖ פְּרִי), ψ 67:7; 85:13; also, subj. הָאֲדָמָה Dt 11:17; of grapes only וְאֵין יְבוּל בַּגְּפָנִים Hb 3:17 (‖ תְּאֵנָה לֹא־תִפְרָח and כִּחֵשׁ מַעֲשֵׂה־זַיִת); more generally יְבוּל בֵּיתוֹ Jb 20:28 the produce (acquired possessions) of his house.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יבל (yâbal) (H2986) — to bring.
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.
יְבוּל
- growth, produce. Ex. R. s. 12 י׳ הארץ the produce of the ground; a. e.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H2981 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יְבוּלָ֔/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 34:27 | 4 |
| יְב֣וּל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Job 20:28 | 2 |
| יְבוּלָ֑/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 11:17 | 2 |
| יְבוּלָֽ/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Haggai 1:10 | 2 |
| וִֽ/יבֻלָ֔/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 32:22 | 1 |
| יְבוּל֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Habakkuk 3:17 | 1 |
| יְבוּלָ֑/ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 78:46 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2981, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אובל ʼûwbâl H180 stream
- יבל yᵉbal H2987 to bring
- יבל yâbâl H2988 stream
- יבל yabbêl H2990 running sore
- יובל yôwbêl H3104 ram's horn
- יובל yûwbal H3105 stream
- מבול mabbûwl H3999 flood
- תבל têbêl H8398 world
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Leviticus 26:4
- Deuteronomy 11:17
- Judges 6:4
- Job 20:28
- Psalms 67:6
- Ezekiel 34:27
- Habakkuk 3:17
- Haggai 1:10
- Zechariah 8:12
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
