תֵּבֵל têbêl

Meaning

the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as Babylonia, Palestine

In the King James Version: habitable part, world.

Derivation: from H2986 (יָבַל);

Where it is used

• 1 Samuel 2:8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
• 2 Samuel 22:16 The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
• 1 Chronicles 16:30 tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
• Job 18:18 He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
• Job 34:13 Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?
• Job 37:12 They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
• Psalms 9:8 He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.
• Psalms 18:15 The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
• Psalms 19:4 their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
• Psalms 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
• Psalms 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere Him.
• Psalms 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
• Psalms 77:18 Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
• Psalms 89:11 The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
• Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
• Psalms 93:1 The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
• Psalms 96:10 Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.
• Psalms 96:13 before the LORD, for He is coming—He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.
• Psalms 97:4 His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
• Psalms 98:7 Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.
• Psalms 98:9 before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
• Proverbs 8:26 before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.
• Proverbs 8:31 I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.
• Isaiah 13:11 I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
• Isaiah 14:17 who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
• Isaiah 14:21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
• Isaiah 18:3 All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.
• Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
• Isaiah 26:9 My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
• Isaiah 26:18 We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
• Isaiah 27:6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
• Isaiah 34:1 Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
• Jeremiah 10:12 The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
• Jeremiah 51:15 The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
• Lamentations 4:12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
• Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.