Tubal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tubal \Tub"al\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to
     one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tubal
       adj : of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the
             fallopian tube or eustachian tube; "tubal ligation";
             "tubal pregnancy"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Tubal
     (1.) The fifth son of Japheth (Gen. 10:2).
     
       (2.) A nation, probably descended from the son of Japheth. It
     is mentioned by Isaiah (66:19), along with Javan, and by Ezekiel
     (27:13), along with Meshech, among the traders with Tyre, also
     among the confederates of Gog (Ezek. 38:2, 3; 39:1), and with
     Meshech among the nations which were to be destroyed (32:26).
     This nation was probably the Tiberini of the Greek historian
     Herodotus, a people of the Asiatic highland west of the Upper
     Euphrates, the southern range of the Caucasus, on the east of
     the Black Sea.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Tubal, the earth; the world; confusion