Original Word: קֹבֶל
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: qebol
Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-bel)
Definition: something in front, a military siege engineWord Origin
from qabal
Definition
something in front, a military siege engine
NASB Translation
battering rams (1), before (1).

[קְבֹל] noun [masculine]

1 >something in front specifically an attacking-engine (compare front; , advance to attack, so הקביל Ecclus 12:5), Ezekiel 26:9 מְחִי קָֽבֳלּוֺ the stroke of his attacking-engine (on the form ‡obolló, from קְבֹל for ‡ªbªl, see Ol^{§ 169} Kö^{ii. 68 f.}; and compare קָֽטֳנִּי from קְטֹן for ‡ª‰ªn, קָֽטָבְךָ, קָֽרֶבְכֶם; and on the בֳָ, Ges^{§ 93q}).

2 construct קָֽבָלעָֿם (‡obol) 2 Kings 15:10, explained formerly as before the people, i.e. publicly (compare Biblical Aramaicaic קֳבֵל before); but the Aramaic is surprising and הָעָם needed: read כְּיִבְלְעָם in Ibleam, with ᵐ5 of L (confirming earlier conjectures of Gr^{G ii. 1. 99} Sta^{Gi. 575}), Dr Klo Benz Kit and others

war

From qabal in the sense of confronting (as standing opposite in order to receive); a battering-ram -- war.

see HEBREW qabal

קָֽבָלְ־ קָֽבָלּ֔וֹ קבלו קבלעם kavalAm kavalLo qā·ḇā·lə·‘ām qā·ḇāl·lōw qāḇālə‘ām qāḇāllōwInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts