Sebam
שְׂבָםStrong’s H7643sevam (se-vam)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sevam is the Hebrew word usually translated “sibmah” and “sebam”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,”
Meaning
- § Shebam or Shibmah or Sibmah = "fragrance"
- § Shebam or Shibmah or Sibmah = "fragrance"
How it's translated
- sibmah 4
- and sebam 1
- and sibmah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Isaiah 2
- Joshua 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 32:38And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
- Joshua 13:19And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley,
- Isaiah 16:8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
- Isaiah 16:9Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
- Jeremiah 48:32O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂבָם sevam · Sebam
§ Shebam or Shibmah or Sibmah = "fragrance" one of the towns in the pastoral district on the east of the Jordan in Moab; allotted to the tribes of Reuben and Gad
שְׂבָם sevam · Sibmah
§ Shebam or Shibmah or Sibmah = "fragrance" one of the towns in the pastoral district on the east of the Jordan in Moab; allotted to the tribes of Reuben and Gad
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.