Pilot
חֹבֵלStrong’s H2259chovel (cho-vel)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chovel is the Hebrew word usually translated “sailors your”, “sailors of” and “sailor”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.”
Meaning
- Sailor, seaman
How it's translated
- sailors your 2
- and sailors your 1
- sailors of 1
- the sailor 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Jonah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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;
- Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹבֵל chovel · pilot
sailor, seaman
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pilot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PI'LOT, noun
- One who steers a ship in a dangerous navigation, or rather one whose office or occupation is to steer ships, particularly along a coast, or into and out of a harbor, bay or river, where navigation is dangerous.
- A guide; a director of the course of another person. [In colloquial use.]
All definitions and other forms of “pilot”
PI'LOT, verb transitive
To direct the course of a ship in any place where navigation is dangerous.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.