Strong’s H5450 · Hebrew

סְבָלָה
çᵉbâlâh
seb-aw-law'

Definition

porterage

Etymology

from H5447 (סֵבֶל);

Where the KJV renders it

  • burden

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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