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Burden

סֵ֫בֶלStrong’s H5447

sevel (se-vel)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sevel is the Hebrew word usually translated “forced labor of”, “burden” and “from a burden”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.”
1 Kings 11:28 KJV
Meaning
  1. Load, burden
How it's translated
  • forced labor of 1
  • in burden 1
  • from a burden 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Kings 1
  • Nehemiah 1
  • Psalms 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

סֵ֫בֶל sevel · burden

load, burden

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “burden” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BURD'EN, noun

burd'n; written also burthen. [Latin fero, or porto.]

  1. That which is borne or carried; a load.
  2. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome or oppressive.
  3. A birth.
  4. The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each verse; the chorus; so called from the application of this word to the drone or base, and the pipe or string which plays it, in an instrument.
All definitions and other forms of “burden”
  1. In common language, that which is often repeated; a subject on which one dwells.
  2. A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
  3. The contents of a ship; the quantity or number of tons, a vessel will carry; as a ship of a hundred tons burden
  4. A club. [Not in use.]

BURD'EN, verb transitive

burd'n. To load; to lay on a heavy load; to incumber with weight. Hence,

  1. To oppress with any thing grievous; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
  2. To surcharge; as, to burden the memory.

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.