Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H8398: תֵּבֵל

têbêl · pronounced tay-bale' · “world”

Definition

the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as Babylonia, Palestine

KJV translates it as: habitable part, world.

Word origin: from H2986 (יָבַל);

Extended definition

world

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H8398 is translated

  • the world ×35
  • the world of ×1

Bible verses with H8398 (têbêl)

Têbêl appears in 36 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • 1 Samuel 2:8

    He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.

  • 2 Samuel 22:16

    And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

  • 1 Chronicles 16:30

    Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

  • Job 18:18

    He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Job 34:13

    Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

  • Job 37:12

    And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

  • Psalms 9:8

    And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

  • Psalms 18:15

    Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

  • Psalms 19:4

    Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

  • Psalms 24:1

    A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

  • Psalms 33:8

    Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

  • Psalms 50:12

    If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

  • Psalms 77:18

    The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

  • Psalms 89:11

    The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

  • Psalms 90:2

    Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

  • Psalms 93:1

    The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

  • Psalms 96:10

    Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

  • Psalms 96:13

    Before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

  • Psalms 97:4

    His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

  • Psalms 98:7

    Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

  • Psalms 98:9

    Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

  • Proverbs 8:26

    While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

  • Proverbs 8:31

    Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

  • Isaiah 13:11

    And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

  • Isaiah 14:17

    That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

All 36 references