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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #6904 - קְבֹל
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- something in front, attacking engine, something before
- before
- siege-engine, battering-ram
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2693) lbq (קבל QBL) AC: Take CO: War AB: Before: Something placed in front and taken, received or chosen.
V) lbq (קבל QBL) - Take hold: To take or receive what has been given. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (16): (vf: Hiphil, Piel) receive, take, choose, held, undertook - Strongs: H6901 (קָבַל), H6902 (קְבַל)
Nm) lbq (קבל QBL) - Before: Being in front of something, in space or time. In the sense of taking what is in front. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (30): before, as, according, against - Strongs: H6903 (קֳבֵל), H6905 (קְבֹל)
gm) lbfq (קובל QWBL) - KJV (1): war - Strongs: H6904 (קְבֹל)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 >something in front specifically an attacking-engine (compare 
front; 
, advance to attack, so הקביל Sirach 12:5), Ezekiel 26:9 מְחִי קָֽבֳלּוֺ the stroke of his attacking-engine (on the form ‡obolló, from קְבֹל for ‡ªbªl, see Ol§ 169 Kö ii. 68f.; and compare קָֽטֳנִּי from קְטֹן for ‡ª‰ªn, קָֽטָבְךָ, קָֽרֶבְכֶם; and on the בֳָ, Ges§ 93 q).
2 construct קָֽבָלעָֿם (‡obol) 2 Kings 15:10, explained formerly as before the people, i.e. publicly (compare Biblical Aramaicaic קֳבֵל before); but the Aramaic is surprising and הָעָם needed: read כְּיִבְלְעָם in Ibleam, with ᵐ5 of L (confirming earlier conjectures of Gr G ii. 1. 99 Sta Gi. 575), Dr Klo Benz Kit and others
