שְׁבוּאֵל
Shebuel
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Shebuel’ fuller range ↓
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 H7619 appears — 5 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.
1 Chronicles 5 verses
- 1 Chronicles 23:16 שְׁבוּאֵ֥ל n Proper The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
- 1 Chronicles 24:20 שֽׁוּבָאֵ֔ל שׁוּבָאֵ֖ל n Proper n Proper Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
- 1 Chronicles 25:4 שְׁבוּאֵ֨ל n Proper Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.
- 1 Chronicles 25:20 שֽׁוּבָאֵ֔ל n Proper for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
- 1 Chronicles 26:24 וּ/שְׁבֻאֵל֙ conj + n Proper and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.
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 שבואל centers on the idea of “Shebuel.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. 1 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 5 of 5 verses. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Chronicles 23:16. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7619 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 5 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 5 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Shebuel 3×, Shubael 3×
- American Standard Version†: Shebuel 3×, Shubael 3×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Shebuel 3×, Shubael 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Shubael 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7619 across 6† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7619 across 6† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7619 across 6† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7619 across 6† 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.
Senses in BDB
The 3 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.
- Shebuel or Shubael = "captive of God"
- son of Gershom and grandson of Moses
- one of the 14 sons of Heman the musician
Word origin
I. n.pr.m. son of Gershom 1 Ch 23:16; 26:24 (שְׁבֻ׳), = שׁוּבָאֵל 24:20(×2), of Herman 25:4 = שׁוּבָאֵל v 20 (cf. Benz on these lists).—𝔊 in all usually Σουβαηλ, 𝔊L usually —βιηλ.
I. v. שְׁבוּאֵל (cf. Sab. n.pr. תֿובאל OsZMG xix (1865), 198 n. Hal 485 DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 16).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שבה (shâbâh) (H7617) — to capture.
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.
שְׁבוּאֵל
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Shebuel, proposed as a secondary substitute (כִּינּוּי כִּינּוּי) for שְׁבוּעָה. Ned. 10ᵇ כינויי כינויין דשבועה היכי דמי ש׳ וכ׳ what are secondary substitutes for sh’bu‘ah? Like Sh’buel, Sh’buthiel, Sh’ḳuḳel; ש׳ ש׳ … משמע וכ׳ but could Sh’buel be used, as it may represent the proper noun Shebuel ben Gershom? Say Sh’bubel.
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 5 distinct written forms H7619 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שֽׁוּבָאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:20 | 2 |
| וּ/שְׁבֻאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:24 | 1 |
| שְׁבוּאֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 23:16 | 1 |
| שְׁבוּאֵ֨ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 25:4 | 1 |
| שׁוּבָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7619, 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
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 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shebuel). 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
Captive of God. (1.) One of the descendants of Gershom, who had charge of the temple treasures in the time of David (1 Chr. 23:16; 26:24).
(2.) One of the sons of Heman; one of those whose duty it was to "lift up the horn" in the temple service (1 Chr. 25:4, 5); called also Shubael (ver. 20).
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
turning, or captivity, or seat, of God
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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