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# סֹבֶא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5435

**drink** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

drink [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5435/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֹ֫בֶא: n.m. drink, liquor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5435/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 1:22 drink, liquor;—only sf. סָבְאֵךְ Is 1:22; סָבְאָם Ho 4:18 (but v. infr.), Na 1:10 (but v. סָבָא);—liquor (appar. strong, choice) Is 1:22; סָר ס׳ Ho 4:18 their liquor (i.e. their drunkenness) is gone Thes Hi Che RVm, but very dub., 𝔊 quite diff. (ἡρέτισεν Χαναναίους), We GuKau Now om. in transl.; conj. of HoutsmaTTijdschr ix (1875), 60 סֹד סֹבְאִים, a company of wine-bibbers, makes good sense.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: drink (3).

## In the verses

[Hosea 4:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.18/#tree)

סָ֖ר סָבְאָ֑ם הַזְנֵ֣ה הִזְנ֔וּ אָהֲב֥וּ הֵב֛וּ קָל֖וֹן מָגִנֶּֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* it.has.come.to.an.end drink their continually.(prostitute.themselves) they.have.prostituted.themselves they.have.loved love shame shields its

*JPS 1917:* When their carouse is over, they take to harlotry; her rulers deeply love dishonour.

[Isaiah 1:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.22/#tree)

כַּסְפֵּ֖ךְ הָיָ֣ה לְסִיגִ֑ים סָבְאֵ֖ךְ מָה֥וּל בַּמָּֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* silver your it.has.become (into) dross(es) drink your \[has.been\].mixed with (the) water

*JPS 1917:* Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5435.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5435/): 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).