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# סָבַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5440

**interweave** — used 2 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

interweave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5440/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָבַךְ: vb. interweave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5440/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. interweave (‖ form to שׂבך q.v.);— Pt. pass. pl. סִירִים סְבֻבִים Na 1:10 interwoven (entangled) thorns (cf. Da); GunkelZAW xiii (1893), 235 proposes (after 𝔊 𝔗 Vollers) כְּסוּחִים i.e. cut off, away (Is 33:12) cf. Now; text very dub. Impf. 3 mpl. עַל־גַּל שָׁרָשָׁיו יְסֻבָּ֑כוּ Jb 8:17 are interwoven (in a tangled mass).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 8:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.17/#tree)

עַל־גַּ֭ל שָֽׁרָשָׁ֣יו יְסֻבָּ֑כוּ בֵּ֖ית אֲבָנִ֣ים יֶחֱזֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* over a.heap roots its they.are.entangled between stones it.sees

*JPS 1917:* His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.

[Nahum 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.10/#tree)

כִּ֚י עַד־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם סְבוּאִ֑ים אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ כְּקַ֥שׁ יָבֵ֖שׁ מָלֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* (dm) to thorns entangled and like drink their drunkards they.will.be.consumed like stubble dry full

*JPS 1917:* For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5440.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5440/): 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).