Mast
חִבֵּלStrong’s H2260chibbel (chib-bel)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chibbel is the Hebrew word usually translated “mast”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.”
Meaning
- Mast (meaning uncertain)
How it's translated
- a mast 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חִבֵּל chibbel · mast
mast (meaning uncertain)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mast” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
M'AST, noun
A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards, sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “mast”
M'AST, noun
The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]
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.