Lexical Definition

‎קֹבֶל‎ qôbel (ko'-bel) battering-ram ^H:N-M
from ‎קָבַל‎ in the sense of confronting (as standing opposite in order to receive)

war.

• a battering-ram

1) something in front, attacking engine, something before
1a) before
1b) siege-engine, battering-ram

Extended Information

• something in front, attacking engine, siege-engine, battering-ram

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎קְבֹל‎] noun [masculine]

1. >something in front specifically an attacking-engine (compare front; , advance to attack, so ‎הקביל‎ Eccl 12:5), Ezek 26:9 ‎מְחִי קָֽבֳלּוֺ‎ the stroke of his attacking-engine (on the form ‡obolló, from ‎קְבֹל‎ for ‡ªbªl, see Ol^{§ 169} Kö^{ii. 68 f.}; and compare ‎קָֽטֳנִּי‎ from ‎קְטֹן‎ for ‡ª‰ªn, ‎קָֽטָבְךָ‎, ‎קָֽרֶבְכֶם‎; and on the ‎בֳָ‎, Ges^{«GKC:93q»§ 93q}).

2. construct ‎קָֽבָלעָֿם‎ (‡obol) 2Kgs 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

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