# חֹבֵל (chovel)

Israeli respelling: cho-vel. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2259. 5 Old Testament occurrences.

a sailor

King James renderings: pilot, shipmaster.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chovel-h2259

## Occurrences

- [Ezekiel 27:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/8) — The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
- [Ezekiel 27:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/27) — Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy me…
- [Ezekiel 27:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/28) — The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
- [Ezekiel 27:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/27/29) — And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
- [Jonah 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/1/6) — So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon…