Lexical Definition

‎תֵּבֵל‎ têbêl (tay-bale') world ^H:N-F
from ‎יָבַל‎

habitable part, world.

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

1) world

See Greek: ἀσεβέω · οἰκουμένη

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎תֵּבֵל‎ noun feminine^{Nah 1:5} (apparently masculine Isa 14:17) world, poetic synonym of ‎אֶרֶץ‎ (perhaps originally as productive, compare ‎יְבוּל‎, ‎בּוּל‎, but this sense not clearly maintained; compare also Assyrian tabalu in êlî tabali, by land, || êlî nâru, by water (river) Meissn^{ZA 1889, iv. 3, 261, 263, 265 f.} SASm^{Assyrian Letters iv. plate viii. ix, 1. 33}) — usually absolute ‎׳‎‎ת‎ (no article), construct Job 37:12; Prov 8:31 world, usually || ‎׃אֶרֶץ‎ 1Sam 2:8 (‎׳‎‎י‎ set ‎׳‎‎ת‎ on ‎מְצֻקֵי אֶרֶץ‎), Isa 14:21; Isa 24:4; Isa 34:1; Jer 10:12 = Jer 51:15, 1Chr 16:30 (= Ps 96:10 below) Job 34:13; Ps 19:5*; Ps 77:19* = Ps 97:4; Ps 90:2; Ps 96:13 (+ ‎עַמִּים‎), Ps 98:9 (+ id.); ‎וְישְׁבֵי‎ ‎׳‎‎ת‎ ‎בָהּ‎ Nah 1:5; Ps 24:1 ‎׳‎‎ישְׁבֵי ת‎ Ps 33:8; Isa 18:3 (|| ‎שֹׁכְנֵי ארץ‎), Isa 26:9; Isa 26:18; Lam 4:12 ‎וּמְלֹאָהּ‎ ‎׳‎‎ת‎ Lam 89:12 (+ ‎שָׁמַיִם‎, compare ‎ארץ ומלאה‎ Lam 24:1); ‎אָ֑רְצָה‎ ‎׳‎‎עַלפְּֿנֵי ת‎ Job 37:12 upon the face of the world of earth (earthly world, the whole expanse of earth); ‎אַרְצוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎בְּת‎ Prov 8:31 on the other hand ‎׳‎‎עַפְרוֺת ת‎ vProv 8:26 ‎׳‎‎ת‎ alone Job 18:18 other combinations ‎וּמְלֹאָהּ‎ ‎׳‎‎ת‎ Ps 50:12 (compare Ps 89:12* above); ‎׳‎‎פְּנֵיתֿ‎ Isa 27:6 (compare Job 37:12 above); ‎׳‎‎מֹסְדוֺת ת‎ 2Sam 22:16 foundations of the world = Ps 18:16*, compare ‎׳‎‎תִּכּוֺן ת‎ Ps 93:1; Ps 96:10 (= 1Chr 16:30); world as object of ‎׳‎‎י‎'s judgment 1Chr 9:9 (|| ‎לְאֻמִּים‎; see also 1Chr 96:13 above), compare ‎וישׁבי בה‎ ‎׳‎‎ת‎ 1Chr 98:7 (|| ‎יַם‎), Isa 13:11 (|| ‎רשׁעים‎); as devastated by Babylonian conqueror Isa 14:17 (|| ‎עָרָיו‎).

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