Jubilee/horn
יוֹבֵלStrong’s H3104yovel (yo-vel)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yovel is the Hebrew word usually translated “jubilee”, “rams horns” and “ram s horn”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.”
Meaning
- Ram, ram's horn, trumpet, cornetram (only in combination) · jubilee year (marked by the blowing of cornets) (meton)
How it's translated
- the jubilee 13
- in the jubilee 4
- rams horns 4
- a jubilee 3
- the ram s horn 1
- and in the jubilee 1
- ram s horn 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 18
- Joshua 5
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 25:10And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
- Leviticus 25:11A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
- Leviticus 25:12For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
- Leviticus 25:13In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
- Leviticus 25:15According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
- Leviticus 25:28But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
Hebrew dictionary
יוֹבֵל yovel · jubilee/horn
1) ram, ram's horn, trumpet, cornet 1a) ram (only in combination) 1a1) ram's horn, trumpet 1b) jubilee year (marked by the blowing of cornets) (meton)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “jubilee” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
JU'BILEE, noun
[Latin jubilum, from jubilo, to shout for joy; Heb. the blast of a trumpet, coinciding with Eng. bawl, peal, Latin pello.]
- Among the Jews, every fiftieth year, being the year following the revolution of seven weeks of years, at which time all the slaves were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period, reverted to their former owners.
- A season of great public joy and festivity.
- A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, in which the pope grants plenary indulgence to sinners, or to as many as visit the churches of St.
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.