תַּחְבֻּלָה
counsel
also: direction, guidance, good advice 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
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8458 appears in the Book of Job — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Job
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.
תחבלה — transliterated tachbulâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “counsel.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Proverbs. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. Debuting at Job 37:12, it then recurs through the corpus. BDB distinguishes 3 senses; alongside “counsel” it spans “direction”, “guidance”, and “good advice”. 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 H8458 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
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 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 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: Counsels 2×
- American Standard Version: Wise guidance 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Counsel 1×, Direction 1×, Guidance 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Guidance 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8458 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8458 across 6 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 H8458 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8458 across 6 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.
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.
- direction, counsel, guidance, good advice, (wise) counsel
- direction, guidance
- counsel
Word origin
[ תַּחְבֻּלָה ] n.f. direction, counsel (prob. orig. of rope -pulling, i.e. steering, directing a ship)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חבל (châbal) (H2254) — to bind.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H8458 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ב/תחבולת/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Job 37:12 | 1 |
| בְ֭/תַחְבֻּלוֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Proverbs 24:6 | 1 |
| בְּ/תַחְבּוּלֹתָ֣י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Job 37:12 | 1 |
| וּ֝/בְ/תַחְבֻּל֗וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Proverbs 20:18 | 1 |
| תַּ֭חְבֻּלוֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Proverbs 11:14 | 1 |
| תַּחְבֻּל֖וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Proverbs 12:5 | 1 |
| תַּחְבֻּל֥וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Proverbs 1:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8458, 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
- חבל chăbal H2255 to destroy
- חבל chebel H2256 cord
- חבל chăbôl H2258 pledge
- חבל chôbêl H2259 sailor
- חבל chibbêl H2260 mast
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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.
