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) MeissnZA 1889, iv. 3, 261, 263, 265 f. SASmAssyrian 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 v[Prov 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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