סַנְבַלַּט
Sanballat
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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 H5571 appears — 10 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 10 verses
- Nehemiah 2:10 סַנְבַלַּ֣ט n Proper When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
- Nehemiah 2:19 סַנְבַלַּ֨ט n Proper But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?
- Nehemiah 4:1 סַנְבַלַּ֗ט n Proper But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
- Nehemiah 4:7 סַנְבַלַּ֡ט n Proper But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
- Nehemiah 6:1 לְ/סַנְבַלַּ֣ט prep + n Proper Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)
- Nehemiah 6:2 סַנְבַלַּ֤ט n Proper that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
- Nehemiah 6:5 סַנְבַלַּ֜ט n Proper Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
- Nehemiah 6:12 וְ/סַנְבַלַּ֖ט conj + n Proper I discerned, and, behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
- Nehemiah 6:14 וּ/לְ/סַנְבַלַּ֖ט conj + prep + n Proper Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
- Nehemiah 13:28 לְ/סַנְבַלַּ֣ט prep + n Proper One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
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 name סנבלט centers on the idea of “Sanballat.” The word gravitates to Nehemiah (100%). It turns up in 10 verses across 1 book, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Nehemiah 2:10. For the data behind this summary, explore 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5571 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 10 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 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 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: Sanballat 7×, Came to pass that when sanballat 2×
- American Standard Version: Sanballat 5×, Came to pass that 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sanballat 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sanballat 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5571 across 10 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 H5571 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H5571 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5571 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 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.
- Sanballat = "strength"
- a Moabite of Horonaim and the opponent of Nehemiah and the returned exiles in their goal of rebuilding the walls of…
Word origin
סַנְבַּלַּט n.pr.m. leader of Samaritan opponents of Nehemiah
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of foreign origin
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H5571 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| לְ/סַנְבַלַּ֣ט | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 6:1 | 2 |
| וְ/סַנְבַלַּ֖ט | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 6:12 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/סַנְבַלַּ֖ט | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 6:14 | 1 |
| סַנְבַלַּ֗ט | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 4:1 | 1 |
| סַנְבַלַּ֜ט | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 6:5 | 1 |
| סַנְבַלַּ֡ט | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 4:7 | 1 |
| סַנְבַלַּ֣ט | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 2:10 | 1 |
| סַנְבַלַּ֤ט | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 6:2 | 1 |
| סַנְבַלַּ֨ט | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 2:19 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Sanballat). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Held some place of authority in Samaria when Nehemiah went up to Jerusalem to rebuild its ruined walls. He vainly attempted to hinder this work (Neh. 2:10, 19; 4:1-12; 6). His daughter became the wife of one of the sons of Joiada, a son of the high priest, much to the grief of Nehemiah (13:28).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(strength), a Moabite of Horonaim. (Nehemiah 2:10,13; 13:28) He held apparently some command in Samaria at the time Nehemiah was preparing to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, B.C. 445, (Nehemiah 4:2) and from the moment of Nehemiah's arrival in Judea he set himself to oppose every measure for the welfare of Jerusalem. The only other incident in his life is his alliance with the high priest's family by the marriage of his daughter with one of the grandsons of Eliashib; but the expulsion from the priesthood of the guilty son of Joiada by Nehemiah promptly followed. Here the scriptural narrative ends.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
bramble-bush; enemy in secret
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
