Burden
סֹ֫בֶלStrong’s H5448sovel (so-vel)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sovel is the Hebrew word usually translated “burden its”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.”
Meaning
- Burden, load
How it's translated
- burden its 2
- and burden its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 10:27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
- Isaiah 14:25That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Hebrew dictionary
סֹ֫בֶל sovel · burden
burden, load
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.]
- That which is borne or carried; a load.
- That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome or oppressive.
- A birth.
- 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”
- In common language, that which is often repeated; a subject on which one dwells.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
- The contents of a ship; the quantity or number of tons, a vessel will carry; as a ship of a hundred tons burden
- A club. [Not in use.]
BURD'EN, verb transitive
burd'n. To load; to lay on a heavy load; to incumber with weight. Hence,
- To oppress with any thing grievous; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
- 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.