חֹבֵל chôbêl

Hebrew · Strong's H2259 · pronounced kho-bale' · used 5 times in 5 verses

Meaning

a sailor

In the King James Version: pilot, shipmaster.

Derivation: active participle from H2254 (חָבַל) (in the sense of handling ropes);

Ezekiel 27:8 The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.
Ezekiel 27:27 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.
Ezekiel 27:28 The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.
Ezekiel 27:29 All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.
Jonah 1:6 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.”