יַבָּל
running sore
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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2990 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.
Leviticus 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.
At its core, יבל (yabbêl) means “running sore.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Leviticus (100%). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Leviticus 22:22. It shares a root with יבל, אובל and יבול. 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 H2990 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
- Leviticus 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
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: Or having a wen 1×
- American Standard Version: Or having a wen 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Anything with a running sore 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having a running 1×, Sore 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2990 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2990 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2990 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2990 across 2 tagged occurrences — 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.
- running sore, runnings, suppurating, ulcer
Word origin
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.
יָבַל I
- (b. h.) [to break through, come forth, run, flow.—V. יְבוּל, יִבְלָא &c.]
- to lead; to carry, bring. Sifré Deut. 43 (ref. to יבולה, Deut. XI, 17) אף לא מה שאתה מוֹבִיל לה not even as much as thou carriest to it (as seed); Yalk. ib. 869. R. Hash. 9ᵇ, v. דּוּר ch.—Part. pass. מוּבָל one carried, unable to move, feetless &c. Toh. VII, 5 אפי׳ מ׳ אפי׳ כפות even if he is unable to move, even if he is tied; Tosef. ib. VIII, 7 והלה מוּוָל או כפות ed. Zuck. (ed. ממלאו, read: מוול או); Y. Ḥag. II, end, 78ᶜ אפי׳ מאכל ואפי׳ כסות (corr. acc.). [For הוֹבִיל to study, v. בִּיל h.] e.g. Deuteronomy 11:17
יְבַל
- , Af. אוֹבִיל, אֵיבֵיל (הֵיבֵל), אַיְיבֵל ch. same. Targ. Ps. LXVI, 6. Targ. Is. X, 32 (v. infra); a. fr.—Erub. 27ᵇ, a. e. מוֹבִילְנָא מאניה וכ׳ I will carry his clothes after him to the bath-house. Snh. 95ᵃ (ref. to ינפף, Is. l. c.) מוֹבִיל ומייתי וכ׳ moving his hand to and back (= h. מוליך ומביא, v. בּוֹא); a. fr.—[Ezra V, 14; VI, 5.]—Y. Meg. IV, 75ᵇ bot. כד דאינן תרתייתי מֵיבֵל וכ׳ when two scrolls are used, he carries one away and brings another in; Y. Sot. VII, end, 22ᵃ תרתיי תו מַיְיבֵל (corr. acc.); Y. Yoma VIII, 44ᵇ top מייכל (corr. acc.). Y. Sot. l. c. מַיְיבְלִין, v. אוֹרָיָיא. Y. Taan. III, 66ᵈ bot. הוה מַיְיבְלָהּ וכ׳ (not מייבללה) brought it thither.—[Y. Ab. Zar. III, 43ᵃ נייבל, v. בִּיל ch. e.g. Ezra 5:14
- to be carried. Targ. Is. XXXIX, 6.
יָבַל II
- Pi. יִיבֵּל (denom. of יַבֶּלֶת) to cut off dry twigs, warts &c., to trim. Shebi. II, 2 מְיַבְּלִין מפרקין (Ms. M. a. Y. ed. מְזַבְּלִין, incorr.); expl. Y. ib. 33ᵈ top, v. יַבֶּלֶת.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2990, 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
- יבול yᵉbûwl H2981 produce
- יבל yᵉbal H2987 to bring
- יבל yâbâl H2988 stream
- יובל yôwbêl H3104 ram's horn
- יובל yûwbal H3105 stream
- מבול mabbûwl H3999 flood
- תבל têbêl H8398 world
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 12 — 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 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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