מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵל
Meshezabeel
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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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4898 appears — 3 distinct verses 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.
Nehemiah 3 verses
- Nehemiah 3:4 מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֑ל n Proper Next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. Next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel. Next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
- Nehemiah 10:21 מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֥ל n Proper Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
- Nehemiah 11:24 מְשֵֽׁיזַבְאֵ֜ל n Proper Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.
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.
“Meshezabeel” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name משיזבאל (Mᵉshêyzabʼêl). A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Nehemiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Nehemiah 3:4. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4898 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 3 verses 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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 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: Meshezabeel 3×
- American Standard Version: Meshezabel 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Meshezabel 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Meshezabel 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4898 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4898 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4898 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4898 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses 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.
- Meshezabeel = "God delivers"
- ancestor of Meshullam who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem
- a head of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
- father of Pethahiah and descendant of Zerah the son of Judah
Word origin
n.pr.m. Jewish name in Persian period (God delivers; from Aramaic שֵׁיזֵיב, ܫܰܘܙܶܒ deliver, Assyrian šûzubu, Shaph. from ezêbu, deliver, DlHWB 35; cf. the Bab. names Mušêzib-Marduk, ‘Marduk delivers’, Mušêzib-ilu, KBii. 281, iv. 129):—grandfather of one of the wall-builders Ne 3:4; one of those sealed 10:22; father of royal officer (a Judaean) 11:24; the relation of these to each other is unknown; 𝔊 Μασεζεβηα, Μεσωζεβηλ, 𝔊L Μασσιζαβελ, etc.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שזב (shᵉzab) (H7804) — to deliver.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H4898 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְשֵֽׁיזַבְאֵ֜ל | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 11:24 | 1 |
| מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 3:4 | 1 |
| מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 10:21 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Meshezabeel). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(delivered by God).
+ Ancestor of Meshullam, who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:4) + One of the "heads of the people," probably a family, who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:21) + The father of Pethahiah, and descendant of Zerah the son of Judah. (Nehemiah 11:24)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
