Yabal means “carry” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2986 — lampros (“radiant”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2986 יָבַל (yabal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. yabal (yaw-bal') v. 1. (properly) to flow 2. causatively, to bring (especially with pomp) It has 18 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include bring, forth, carry, and lead. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
yabal (yaw-bal') v. 1. (properly) to flow 2. causatively, to bring (especially with pomp) [a primitive root] KJV: bring (forth), carry, lead (forth).
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to conduct
Usage: 1) to bring, lead, carry, conduct, bear along 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to bear along, bring 1a2) to carry away, lead away 1a3) to lead, conduct 1b) (Hophal) 1b1) to be borne along 1b2) to be borne (to the grave) 1b3) to be brought, be led, be conducted Aramaic equivalent: ye.val (יְבַל "to bring" H2987)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render yabal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2986.
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2986, grouped by book.
Yabal (Strong's H2986) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "carry". yabal (yaw-bal') v. 1. (properly) to flow 2. causatively, to bring (especially with pomp)
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H2986 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2986 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bring, forth, carry, and lead. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.