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# סְבַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5442

**thicket** — 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

thicket [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5442/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְבַךְ: thicket [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5442/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thicket;—abs. בַּסְּבַךְ (נֶאֱחַז) Gn 22:13 (so Ginsb; Baer בַּסֲבַךְ, van d. H. בַּסְּבָךְ) a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; pl. cstr. סִֽבְכֵי הַיַּעַר Is 9:17 thickets of the forest, 10:34.

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 10:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.34/#tree)

וְנִקַּ֛ף סִֽבְכֵ֥י הַיַּ֖עַר בַּבַּרְזֶ֑ל וְהַלְּבָנ֖וֹן בְּאַדִּ֥יר יִפּֽוֹל׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.will.cut.down the.thickets of the.forest with.(the) iron \[axe\] and the.(the) Lebanon by a.mighty.\[one\] it.will.fall

*JPS 1917:* And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

[Isaiah 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.17/#tree)

כִּֽי־בָעֲרָ֤ה כָאֵשׁ֙ רִשְׁעָ֔ה שָׁמִ֥יר וָשַׁ֖יִת תֹּאכֵ֑ל וַתִּצַּת֙ בְּסִֽבְכֵ֣י הַיַּ֔עַר וַיִּֽתְאַבְּכ֖וּ גֵּא֥וּת עָשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.has.burned like (the) fire wickedness thorn\[s\] and bush\[es\] it.consumes and it.has.kindled (in).the thickets of the.forest and they.have.swirled a.rising.up of.smoke

*JPS 1917:* For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5442.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5442/): 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).