Bible word study

Yowbel (Strong’s H3104): Meaning in the Bible

Yowbel (יוֹבֵל) is the Hebrew word numbered H3104 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as the blast of a horn (from its continuous sound); specifically, the signal of the silver trumpets; hence, the instrument itself and the festival thus introduced. In the King James Bible it is translated jubile, ram's horn, trumpet..

• Original wordיוֹבֵל
• Transliterationyôwbêl
• Pronunciationyo-bale'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3104
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or יֹבֵל; apparently from H2986;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yowbel appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yowbel (H3104) stands behind 27 English renderings in 25 verses across 4 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Leviticus (20), Joshua (5), Exodus (1).

How the King James Bible renders Yowbel, by count

• jubile21 of 27 (78 percent)
• rams horns4 of 27 (15 percent)
• rams1 of 27 (4 percent)
• trumpet1 of 27 (4 percent)

Three places to read Yowbel

• Exodus 19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
• Leviticus 25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
• Leviticus 27:21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yowbel in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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