שׁוֹבָל
Shobal
BDB lists 4 entries for ‘Shobal’ 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 H7732 appears — 9 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 36:20 וְ/שׁוֹבָ֖ל conj + n Proper These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- Genesis 36:23 שׁוֹבָ֔ל n Proper These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
- Genesis 36:29 שׁוֹבָ֔ל n Proper These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
1 Chronicles 6 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:38 וְ/שׁוֹבָ֖ל conj + n Proper The sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
- 1 Chronicles 1:40 שׁוֹבָ֔ל n Proper The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.
- 1 Chronicles 2:50 שׁוֹבָ֕ל n Proper These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
- 1 Chronicles 2:52 לְ/שׁוֹבָ֔ל prep + n Proper Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
- 1 Chronicles 4:1 וְ/שׁוֹבָֽל conj + n Proper The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
- 1 Chronicles 4:2 שׁוֹבָל֙ n Proper Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
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.
שובל — transliterated Shôwbâl — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Shobal.” Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Chronicles (67% of all occurrences). With 9 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 36:20, it then recurs through the corpus. See 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7732 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 6 verses 67%
- Genesis 3 verses 33%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 67%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 33%
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†: Shobal 9×
- American Standard Version†: Shobal 9×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Shobal 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Shobal 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7732 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7732 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7732 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7732 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. Edomite name Gn 36:20, 23, 29 = 1 Ch 1:38, 40. e.g. Genesis 36:20
- 2.
- a. in Caleb 1 Ch 2:50, 52. e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:50
- b. in Judah 1 Ch 4:1, 2.—Σαβα(λ), Σουβαλ. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:1
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
Derived from שבל (shôbel) (H7640) — flowing skirt.
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.
שׁוֹבָל
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Shobal, homiletical surname of Bezalel. Ex. R. s. 40, s. שׁוֹבָךְ.
שׁוּבָּל
- , pl. שׁוּבָּלִין, v. שִׁיבּוֹלֶת.
שׁוֹבַל
- = h. שִׁיבּוֹלֶת,
- 1. ear of corn. Targ. Y. Gen. XLI, 47 (ed. Vien. תובלא). Targ. Job XXIV, 24 Ms. (ed. שִׁבּוֹלָא, שִׁיבּ׳).—Pl. שׁוּבְּלַיָּא, שׁוּבְּלִין, שׁוּבְּלֵי, שׁוּבְ׳. Targ. O. Gen. XLI, 5, sq. ed. Berl. (oth. ed. שֻׁבְּ׳). Targ. Is. XVII, 5 שׁוּבְ׳; a. e.—Targ. Ruth II, 2 שִׁבּוֹלִין.—B. Bath. 124ᵃ; Bekh. 52ᵇ, v. חֲפוּרָה II. Yeb. 63ᵃ לביני שִׁיבְּלֵי between the standing ears; a. e.—Men. 70ᵇ שִׁבּוֹלֵו תעלא; Pes. 35ᵃ Ms. O. (ed. שבילי), v. שִׁיבּוֹלֶת.
- 2. cluster of olives on a branch.—Pl. as ab. Targ. Zech. IV, 12; Targ. II Esth. I, 2 שִׁבְּלִין דדהבא golden clusters.—Targ. Y. II, Ex. XXX, 34, v. מוֹרַיָּיא.
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 6 distinct written forms H7732 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שׁוֹבָ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:23 | 3 |
| וְ/שׁוֹבָ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:20 | 2 |
| וְ/שׁוֹבָֽל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:1 | 1 |
| לְ/שׁוֹבָ֔ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:52 | 1 |
| שׁוֹבָ֕ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:50 | 1 |
| שׁוֹבָל֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7732, 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 6 — 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 (Shobal). 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
Pilgrim. (1.) The second son of Seir the Horite; one of the Horite "dukes" (Gen. 36:20).
(2.) One of the sons of Caleb, and a descendant of Hur (1 Chr. 2:50, 52; 4:1, 2).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(flowing).
+ Second son of Seir the Horite, (Genesis 36:20; 1 Chronicles 1:38) and one of the "dukes" of the Horites (Genesis 36:29) + Son of Caleb the son of Hur and founder or prince of Kirjath-jearim. (1 Chronicles 2:50,52) (B.C. about 1445.) + In (1 Chronicles 4:1,2) Shobal appears with Hur among the sons of Judah. He is possibly the same as the preceding.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
path; ear of corn
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
