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נֶבֶל H5035

H5035 is the Hebrew word נֶבֶל, transliterated nebel and said neh'-bel. The King James Version most often renders it psalteries.

Word: נֶבֶלTransliteration: nebelSaid: neh'-belLanguage: HebrewIn the KJV: 33 verses

What it means

a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form).

Where it comes from

or נֵבֶל; from H5034 (נָבֵל).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 34 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

psalteries 13×psaltery 8×bottle 3×bottles 2×viol 2×every bottle 2×also and psalteries 1×viols 1×vessel 1×pitchers 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol.

Verses using נֶבֶל

All 33 verses, quoted in full.

1 Samuel 1:24 · KJV

And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.

1 Samuel 10:3 · KJV

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

1 Samuel 10:5 · KJV

After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:

1 Samuel 25:18 · KJV

Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

2 Samuel 6:5 · KJV

And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

2 Samuel 16:1 · KJV

And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

1 Kings 10:12 · KJV

And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

1 Chronicles 13:8 · KJV

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

1 Chronicles 15:16 · KJV

And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

1 Chronicles 15:20 · KJV

And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;

1 Chronicles 15:28 · KJV

Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

1 Chronicles 16:5 · KJV

Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;

1 Chronicles 25:1 · KJV

Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

1 Chronicles 25:6 · KJV

All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

2 Chronicles 5:12 · KJV

Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

2 Chronicles 9:11 · KJV

And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:28 · KJV

And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 29:25 · KJV

And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

Nehemiah 12:27 · KJV

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

Job 38:37 · KJV

Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

Psalm 33:2 · KJV

Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Psalm 57:8 · KJV

Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

Psalm 71:22 · KJV

I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 92:3 · KJV

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

Psalm 108:2 · KJV

Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

Psalm 144:9 · KJV

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

Psalm 150:3 · KJV

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

Isaiah 5:12 · KJV

And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

Isaiah 14:11 · KJV

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

Isaiah 30:14 · KJV

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

Jeremiah 13:12 · KJV

Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

Lamentations 4:2 · KJV

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Amos 6:5 · KJV

That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

Common questions

What does Strong's H5035 mean?

H5035 is the Hebrew word נֶבֶל (nebel), meaning a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form).

How is H5035 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it psalteries (13 times), psaltery (8 times), bottle (3 times), bottles (2 times), viol (2 times), among others.

How many times does H5035 appear in the Bible?

נֶבֶל (nebel) is tagged in 33 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H5035 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: or נֵבֶל; from H5034 (נָבֵל).

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