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HebrewH5571Proper Noun (Masculine)

סַנְבַלַּט

san.val.lat

8Occurrences
H5571Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Sanballat, a Persian satrap of Samaria

of foreign origin;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at § Sanballat = "strength" a Moabite of Horonaim and the opponent of Nehemiah and the returned exiles in their goal of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

סַנְבַלַּט appears 8 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Nehemiah
8

Key Passages

Nehemiah 13:28BSB

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

Nehemiah 2:10BSB

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.

Nehemiah 2:19BSB

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Nehemiah 6:1BSB

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

Nehemiah 6:2BSB

Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.”But they were planning to harm me.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.