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# חָשִׂף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2835

**two little flocks of goats** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

two little flocks of goats [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2835/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָשִׂיף: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2835/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. only pl. cstr. כִּשְׁנֵי חֲשִׂפֵי עִזִּים 1 K 20:27 𝔊 𝔙 𝔗 and most, two little flocks of goats (חשׂיף = segregatum, strictly what is stripped off), but this without other evidence than authority of the Vrss; Klo proposes בַּשְּׁפִי מִשְׁפַּט עִזִּים on the bare height, after the manner of goats.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: little flocks (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 20:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.27/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הָתְפָּקְדוּ֙ וְכָלְכְּל֔וּ וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ לִקְרָאתָ֑ם וַיַּחֲנ֨וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל נֶגְדָּ֗ם כִּשְׁנֵי֙ חֲשִׂפֵ֣י עִזִּ֔ים וַאֲרָ֖ם מִלְא֥וּ אֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and the.people of.Israel they.were.mustered and they.were.supplied and they.went to meet them and they.encamped the.people of.Israel before them like two little.flocks of.goats and Aram they.filled (et) the land

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel were mustered, and were victualled, and went against them; and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Arameans filled the country.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2835.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2835/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).