Lexical Definition

‎חִבֵּל‎ chibbêl (khib-bale') mast ^H:N-M
from ‎חָבַל‎ (in the sense of furnished with ropes)

mast.

• a mast

1) mast (meaning uncertain)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חִבֵּל‎ noun [masculine] probably mast (as corded or roped in place; denominative from ‎חֶבֶל‎) — only in simile of drunken man ‎׳‎‎שֹׁכֵב בְּראֹשׁ ח‎ Prov 23:24 (opposed to ‎שֹׁכֵב בְּלֶביָֿם‎) i.e. in the lookout-basket at the mast-head, compare Thes in carchesio. — ᵐ5 ᵑ9 read ‎חֹבֵל‎.

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