Strong’s H2259 · Hebrew
חֹבֵל
chôbêl · kho-bale'
Origin active participle from חָבַל (H2254) (in the sense of handling ropes);
Meaning a sailor
In the King James Version pilot, shipmaster.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Ezekiel 27:8The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
- Ezekiel 27:27Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
- Ezekiel 27:28The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
- Ezekiel 27:29And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.