Definition
active participle from H2254 (in the sense of handling ropes); a sailor
Traditional renderings: pilot, shipmaster.
Traditional renderings: pilot, shipmaster.
Usage patterns
Occurrences
5 total
- Ezekiel 27:8חֹבְלָֽיִךְ׃ · as your captainsThe men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.
- Ezekiel 27:27וְחֹבְלָ֑יִךְ · captainsYour wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.
- Ezekiel 27:28חֹבְלָ֑יִךְ · when your sailorsThe countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
- Ezekiel 27:29חֹבְלֵ֣י · the captainsAll who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.
- Jonah 1:6הַחֹבֵ֔לThe captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”