שׁוֹבַךְ
Shobach
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Shobach’ 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 H7731 appears — 2 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.
2 Samuel 2 verses
- 2 Samuel 10:16 וְ/שׁוֹבַ֛ךְ conj + n Proper Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
- 2 Samuel 10:18 שׁוֹבַ֧ךְ n Proper The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.
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 שובך centers on the idea of “Shobach.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to 2 Samuel (100%). Its earliest occurrence is 2 Samuel 10:16. 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 H7731 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Samuel 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 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: Shobach 2×
- American Standard Version: Shobach 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shobach 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shobach 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7731 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7731 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7731 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7731 across 3 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 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.
- Shobach = "expansion"
- general of king Hadarezer of the Syrians of Zoba in the time of David
Word origin
n.pr.m. Aramaean general, 2 S 10:16, 18 (Σωβακ, 𝔊L Σαβεε), = שׁוֹפַךְ 1 Ch 19:16, 18 (Σωφαρ, Σαφαθ; A Σωφαχ, Σωβαχ, 𝔊L Σωφακ).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שובך (sôwbek) (H7730) — network.
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.
שׁוֹבַךְ
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Shobach, an Ammonite general. Sot. VIII, 1 בני … של ש׳ the Ammonites went into battle relying on the strength of Sh. Ib. 42ᵇ כתיב ש׳ וכתיב שופך the name is once written Shobach (II Sam. X, 16), and once Shophach (I Chr. XIX, 16); חד אמר … עשוי כשׁוֹבָךְ one authority says, his real name was Shophach, and he was called Shobach, because he was built like a dove-cote (of high stature, v. next w.), v. שָׁפַךְ. e.g. 2 Samuel 10:16
שׁוֹבָךְ
- (שבך; cmp. שְׂבָכָה) net-work, esp. (b. h. אֲרֻבָּה) dove-cote. Ex. R. s. 40 (play on ש̇ו̇ב̇ל̇, I Chr. IV, 1, sq.) ושובל שהעמיד ש̇וב̇ך̇ לאֹלהים (not ושובך) Bezalel was surnamed Shobal because he erected a dove-cote for God, זה המשכן שהיה עומד כש׳ that is the Tabernacle, which stood (high) like a dove-cote. Ib. העמיד … כש׳ the Lord had the Tabernacle put up like a dove-cote (for the dove Israel). B. Bath. II, 5 מרחיקין … מן הש׳ וכ׳ you must keep your ladder (when lopping trees &c.) four cubits away from your neighbor’s dove-cote. Ib. מרחיקין את הש׳ וֹכ׳ you must keep your dove-cotes at a distance of fifty cubits from the town. Ib. 6 הרי הוא של בעל הש׳ it belongs to the owner of the nearest dove-cote. Ib. V, 3 פירות ש׳ the crop of a dove-cote (the brood of the season); a. fr.—Pl. שׁוֹבָכוֹת, שׁוֹבָכִין. Ib. II, 6. B. Kam. 83ᵃ ישוב ש׳ a group of dove-cotes; a. e.—Pes. IV, 7 (55ᵇ) מושיבין ש׳ לתרנגולים וכ׳ (Ms. O. לתרנגולת) you may set up chicken-houses (put in eggs for brooding) on the fourteenth of Nisan; [vers. quoted in Rashi: מושיבין ש׳ ותרנגולת you may set brooding doves in cotes, and also hens]. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:1
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 2 distinct written forms H7731 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/שׁוֹבַ֛ךְ | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 10:16 | 1 |
| שׁוֹבַ֧ךְ | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 10:18 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shobach). 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
Poured out, the "captain of the host of Hadarezer" when he mustered his vassals and tributaries from beyond "the river Euphrates" (2 Sam. 10:15-18); called also Shophach (1 Chr. 19:16).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(expansion), the general of Hadarezer king of the Syrians of Zoba, who was defeated by David. (2 Samuel 10:15-18) In (1 Chronicles 19:16) he is called Shophach. (B.C. 1034.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
your bonds; your chains
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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