אֹבֹת
Oboth
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Oboth’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H88 appears — 4 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.
Numbers 4 verses
- Numbers 21:10 בְּ/אֹבֹֽת prep + n Proper The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
- Numbers 21:11 מֵ/אֹבֹ֑ת prep + n Proper They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
- Numbers 33:43 בְּ/אֹבֹֽת prep + n Proper They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
- Numbers 33:44 מֵ/אֹבֹ֑ת prep + n Proper They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab.
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.
אבת — transliterated ʼôbôth — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Oboth.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Numbers (100% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Numbers 21:10. See 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H88 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 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: Oboth 4×
- American Standard Version: Oboth 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Oboth 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Oboth 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H88 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H88 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H88 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H88 across 4 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.
- Oboth = "waterskins"
- undetermined site of an Israelite camp in the wilderness
Word origin
אֹבֹת n.pr.loc. ( water-skins ) station of Isr. in wildern.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אוב (ʼôwb) (H178) — water skin bottle.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H88 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/אֹבֹֽת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 21:10 | 2 |
| מֵ/אֹבֹ֑ת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 21:11 | 2 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Oboth). 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
Bottles, an encampment of the Israelites during the wanderings in the wilderness (Num. 33:43), the first after the setting up of the brazen serpent.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(bottles), one of the encampments of the Israelites, east of Moab. (Numbers 21:10; 33:43) Its exact site is unknown but it was probably south of the Dead Sea, on the boundary between Moab and Edom.--ED).
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
dragons; fathers; desires
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 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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