Bowl
סֵ֫פֶלStrong’s H5602sephel (se-phel)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sephel is the Hebrew word usually translated “bowl of” and “bowl”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.”
Meaning
- Bowl, basin
How it's translated
- in a bowl of 1
- the bowl 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
סֵ֫פֶל sephel · bowl
bowl, basin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bowl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOWL, noun
[In Latin, vola is the hollow of the hand.]
- A concave vessel to hold liquors, rather wide than deep, and thus distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide.
- The hollow part of any thing; as the bowl of a spoon.
- A basin; a fountain.
All definitions and other forms of “bowl”
BOWL, noun
A ball of wood used for play on a level plat of ground.
BOWL, verb intransitive
To play with bowls, or at bowling.
BOWL, verb transitive
To roll as a bowl; also, to pelt with any thing rolled.
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.