Shovel
יָעStrong’s H3257ya
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ya is the Hebrew word usually translated “shovels” and “shovels its”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.”
Meaning
- Shovel
How it's translated
- the shovels 8
- and shovels its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Numbers 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 38:3And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
- Numbers 4:14And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins, and put to the staves of it.
- 1 Kings 7:40And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
- 1 Kings 7:45And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
- 2 Kings 25:14And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
- 2 Chronicles 4:11And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;
Hebrew dictionary
יָע ya · shovel
shovel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shovel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOVEL, noun
shov'l. An instrument consisting of a broad scoop or hollow blade with a handle; used por throwing earth or other loole substances.
All definitions and other forms of “shovel”
SHOVEL, verb transitive
- To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap or into a cart, or out of a pit.
- To gather in great quantities.
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.