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# סָבָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5433

**imbibe** — used 5 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

imbibe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5433/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָבָא: vb. imbibe, drink largely [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5433/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. imbibe, drink largely (NH id.; Aramaic סְבָא id. (rare); cf. Assyrian sabû, 3 DlHWB;—Arabic سَبْأٌ wine, is prob. loan-wd. and سَبَأَ import foreign wine denom., Frä 157 f.);— Impf. 1 pl. cohort. נִסְבְּאָה Is 56:12; Pt. act. סֹבְא Dt 21:20; Pr 23:21; pl. סובאים Ez 23:42 Kt (Qr סָבָאִים, v. infr.); cstr. סֹבְאֵי Pr 23:20; pass. סְבוּאִים Na 1:10;—imbibe, c. acc. שֵׁכָר Is 56:12; pt. act. = subst. wine-bibber, drunkard Dt 21:20; Pr 23:21 (both + זוֹלֵל); fully, סֹבְאֵ׳ יָי֑ן 23:20 (+ זֹלֲלֵי בָשָׂר); so also Ez 23:42 Kt (Qr perhaps n.gent., so 𝔖 AV, v. infr.), which read Sm RV SgfrKau Da; Co thinks dittogr. of מוּבָאִים, but perhaps the reverse (ToyHpt om. מוּבָאִים); \> Berthol (q.v.) מִסְּבָא; other conj. v. in Sm; וּכְסָבְאָם סְבוּאִים Na 1:10 is prob. corrupt, pt. pass. of person dub., and sense obscure; del. both as dittogr. GunkelZAW xiii (1893), 235 Now; om. in transl. We Kau. On Ho 4:18 v. סֹבֶא.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a drunkard (2); drunkards (2); let us drink (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 23:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.21/#tree)

כִּי־סֹבֵ֣א וְ֭זוֹלֵל יִוָּרֵ֑שׁ וּ֝קְרָעִ֗ים תַּלְבִּ֥ישׁ נוּמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.drunkard and a.glutton he.will.become.impoverished and rags it.will.clothe.\[him\] drowsiness

*JPS 1917:* For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

[Proverbs 23:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.20/#tree)

אַל־תְּהִ֥י בְסֹֽבְאֵי־יָ֑יִן בְּזֹלֲלֵ֖י בָשָׂ֣ר לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* do.not be among drunkards of.wine among gluttons of.meat (for themselves

*JPS 1917:* Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of flesh;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5433.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5433/): 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).