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# סָבָא

Biblical Hebrew

**drunkards** — 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

drunkards [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5d1_5b8_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** only pl. סָבָאִים Ez 23:42 Qr =drunkards, wine-bibbers(?) so Thes al., but v. סְבָאִים.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.42/#tree)

וְק֣וֹל הָמוֹן֮ שָׁלֵ֣ו בָהּ֒ וְאֶל־אֲנָשִׁים֙ מֵרֹ֣ב אָדָ֔ם מוּבָאִ֥ים סָבָאִ֖ים מִמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַֽיִּתְּנ֤וּ צְמִידִים֙ אֶל־יְדֵיהֶ֔ן וַעֲטֶ֥רֶת תִּפְאֶ֖רֶת עַל־רָאשֵׁיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] sound of.a.multitude at.ease \[was\].in her and to men of.\[the\] multitude of.humankind \[were\].brought Sabeans from.\[the\] wilderness and they.put bracelets to hands their and a.crown of.beauty on heads their

*JPS 1917:* And the voice of a multitude being at ease was therein; and for the sake of men, they were so many, brought drunken from the wilderness, they put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5d1_5b8_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5d1_5b8_5d0/): 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).