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Meaning and etymology of the Hebrew name Tubal
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Tubal 
In the Bible there's one person named Tubal and one more named Tubal Cain. Tubal Cain and his brothers Jabal and Jubal and sister Naamah are the last in line from Cain, the cursed son of Adam and Eve (Genesis 4:22). Just Tubal descends from Cain's youngest brother Seth, and is a son of Japheth, who is a son of Noah (Genesis 10:2).
The latter Tubal shows up quite a bit in prophetic texts, usually in the company of his brothers Meshech and Magog (Isaiah 66:19, Ezekiel 27:13, 38:2).
The name Tubal comes from the verb  (yabal) generally meaning bring, carry, lead, conduct. HAW Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament explains that "the primary meaning of this root is to cause to transport an object from one place to another."
And since this is such a general and ubiquitous concept, this verb has many derivatives, some of which are: (yabal), which means watercourse (this word occurs only in Isaiah 30:25 and 44:4 in plural); (yobel (835e) which means trumpet (possibly because air flows through a trumpet, or sound flows out from it);  (yubal), meaning stream (this word occurs only in Jeremiah 17:8);  (yebul) means produce (of the soil);  (bul) means produce, outgrowth. Only Job 40:20, and Isaiah 44:19.
Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names settles for the general meaning of the root verb and reads Flowing Forth for the meaning of the name Tubal.
However, identical to the name Tubal is our root's derivative  (tebel), meaning world. This word tebel is one of two regular words for world; the other is  (eres). Eres is used more frequently and tends to denote substance (earth, ground, land, country), while tebel tends to denote the world of economy and interaction (sometimes including the atmosphere and the heavens).
The name Tubal means World, but the inhabited world; the world-economy in its broadest sense.
Related names are Jabal and Jubal.
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