To bring
יְבַלStrong’s H2987yeval (ye-val)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yeval is the Aramaic word usually translated “carried” and “carry”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;”
Meaning
- (Aphel) to bring, carry, bear along
How it's translated
- and he carried 2
- and to carry 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 6:5And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
- Ezra 7:15And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
Aramaic dictionary
יְבַל yeval · to bring
(Aphel) to bring, carry, bear along Aramaic of ya.val (יָבַל "to conduct" H2986)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRING, verb transitive
- To fetch; to bear, convey or lead from a distant to a nearer place, or to a person; as, bring me a book from the shelf; bring me a morsel of bread.
- To produce; to procure as a cause; to draw to.
- To attract or draw along.
- To cause to come; to cause to proceed from a distant place, in company, or at the same time; as, to bring a boat over a river; to bring a horse or carriage; to bring a cargo of dry goods.
All definitions
- To cause to come to a point, by moral influence; used of the mind, and implying previous remoteness, aversion, alienation, or disagreement; as, to bring the mind to assent to a proposition; or to bring a man to terms, by persuasion or argument.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.