H5187 H5187
laden with, carrying — bearing or loaded with something heavy
This adjective appears in Zephaniah's judgment oracle against Jerusalem's merchant quarter. The prophet announces doom on 'those laden with silver'—the wealthy traders whose riches cannot save them. It's economic judgment: those who accumulated wealth will lose it all. The word suggests being weighed down or burdened with something, here applied to silver-carrying merchants. The image anticipates the coming catastrophe when material wealth proves worthless.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A plural construct participial adjective meaning 'laden with, carrying, bearing' in Zephaniah 1:11. The phrase 'those laden with silver' (נְטִילֵי כָסֶף) identifies wealthy merchants or traders who will be destroyed in God's coming judgment on Jerusalem. The word suggests being loaded or burdened with weight—here, the weight of silver. The root נטל appears in later Hebrew meaning 'take up, lift, carry,' and this adjectival form describes those who carry or are laden with wealth. The judgment context indicates their riches won't save them. 1×
AR["حَامِلِي"]·ben["বহনকারীরা"]·DE["[נטילי]"]·EN["those-laden-with"]·FR["chargé"]·heb["נטילי"]·HI["तौलने-वाले"]·ID["pembawa"]·IT["carico"]·jav["tiyang-kang-nimbang"]·KO["달아-가는-자들"]·PT["carregados-de"]·RU["носящие"]·ES["cargados-de"]·SW["wanaobeba"]·TR["tartanları"]·urd["اُٹھانے-والے"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [נָטִיל] adj. laden, only pl. cstr. נְטִילֵי כָ֑סֶף Zp 1:11 those laden with silver.