Strong's Hebrew · H2259
חֹבֵל
chôbêl · kho-bale'
pilot, shipmaster.
Definition
a sailor
Derivation
active participle from H2254 (חָבַל) (in the sense of handling ropes);
Appears 5 times in Scripture
“The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.”
“The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.”
“The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.””
“Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.”
“All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).