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תֵּבֵל noun feminine ^{Nah 1:5} (apparently masculine Isa 14:17) world, poetic synonym of אֶרֶץ (perhaps originally as productive , compare יְבוּל, בּוּל, but this sense not clearly maintained; compare also Assyrian tabalu in êlî tabali, by land, || êlî nâru, by water (river) Meissn^{ZA 1889, iv. 3, 261, 263, 265 f.} SASm^{Assyrian Letters iv. plate viii. ix, 1. 33}) — usually absolute ׳ ת (no article), construct Job 37:12; Prov 8:31 world, usually || ׃אֶרֶץ 1Sam 2:8 (׳ י set ׳ ת on מְצֻקֵי אֶרֶץ), Isa 14:21; Isa 24:4; Isa 34:1; Jer 10:12 = Jer 51:15, 1Chr 16:30 (= Ps 96:10 below) Job 34:13; Ps 19:5; Ps 77:19 = Ps 97:4; Ps 90:2; Ps 96:13 (+ עַמִּים), Ps 98:9 (+ id.); וְישְׁבֵי ׳ ת בָהּ Nah 1:5; Ps 24:1 ׳ ישְׁבֵי ת Ps 33:8; Isa 18:3 (|| שֹׁכְנֵי ארץ), Isa 26:9; Isa 26:18; Lam 4:12 וּמְלֹאָהּ ׳ ת Lam 89:12 (+ שָׁמַיִם, compare ארץ ומלאה Lam 24:1); אָ֑רְצָה ׳ עַלפְּֿנֵי ת Job 37:12 upon the face of the world of earth (earthly world, the whole expanse of earth); אַרְצוֺ ׳ בְּת Prov 8:31 on the other hand ׳ עַפְרוֺת ת Prov 8:26 ׳ ת alone Job 18:18 other combinations וּמְלֹאָהּ ׳ ת Ps 50:12 (compare Ps 89:12 above); ׳ פְּנֵיתֿ Isa 27:6 (compare Job 37:12 above); ׳ מֹסְדוֺת ת 2Sam 22:16 foundations of the world = Ps 18:16, compare ׳ תִּכּוֺן ת Ps 93:1; Ps 96:10 (= 1Chr 16:30); world as object of ׳ י's judgment 1Chr 9:9 (|| לְאֻמִּים; see also 1Chr 96:13 above), compare וישׁבי בה ׳ ת 1Chr 98:7 (|| יַם), Isa 13:11 (|| רשׁעים); as devastated by Babylonian conqueror Isa 14:17 (|| עָרָיו).