Lexicon
תֵּבֵל
te.vel
H8398
H:N-F Hebrew

world

36
Occurrences
10
Books
Hebrew
Language

te.vel denotes the world as the terrestrial realm, including its inhabitants, cities, and created order.

The term consistently denotes the world as the terrestrial realm: it can be established and created, filled with cities or fruit, inhabited by peoples, and addressed in declarations of judgment and praise. The supplied verses do not require separate lexical senses beyond this broad reference to the world and its inhabitants.

Senses in use

  1. The terrestrial and inhabited world · dominant

    The singular noun refers broadly to the realm that includes both its physical extent and those who live within it. In Psalm 24:1 the APB renders a clause pairing the world with “those who dwell in it”; in Isaiah 18:3 it similarly addresses “all the inhabitants of the world.” The same realm is established in Jeremiah 10:12, filled with fruit in Isaiah 27:6, and judged alongside peoples in Psalm 96:13.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB predominantly presents the term as “world,” often in clauses that also mention inhabitants, peoples, cities, or the earth. These renderings indicate the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent in every occurrence.

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Across Scripture