Stall
מַרְבֵּקStrong’s H4770marbeq (mar-beq)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Marbeq is the Hebrew word usually translated “stall”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:”
Meaning
- Stall (of animals)
How it's translated
- stall 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Amos 1
- Malachi 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 46:21Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
- Amos 6:4That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
- Malachi 4:2But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Hebrew dictionary
מַרְבֵּק marbeq · stall
stall (of animals)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stall” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STALL, noun
[G., to set, that is, to throw down, to thrust down. See Still.]
- Primarily, a stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the apartment for one horse or ox.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- In stall is used for horse. 1 Kings 4:262 Chronicles 9:25
- A bench, form or frame of shelves in the open air, where any thing is exposed to sale.
All definitions and other forms of “stall”
- A small house or shed in which an occupation is carried on; as a butchers stall
- The seat of a dignified clergyman in the choir.
STALL, verb transitive
- To put into a stable; or to keep in a stable; as, to stall an ox.
- To install; to place in an office with the customary formalities. [For this, install is now used.]
- To set; to fix; to plunge into mire so as not to be able to proceed; as, to stall horses or a carriage. [This phrase I have heard in Virginia.
STALL, verb intransitive
- To dwell; to inhabit.
- To kennel.
- To be set, as in mire.
- To be tired of eating, as cattle.
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.