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# סָחַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5498

**drag** — 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

drag [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5498/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָחַב: vb. drag Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5498/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. drag (Impf. consec. 1 s. ואסחב MI 18, sf. ואסחבה Ib 12:13; Ph. סחב Lzb 328; Arabic سَحَبَ, Ethiopic ሰሐበ );— Pf. 1 pl. וְסָחַ֫בְנוּ consec. 2 S 17:13; Impf. 3 ms. sf. יִסְחָבוּם Je 49:20; 50:45; Inf. abs. סָחוֹב Je 22:19; cstr. לִסְחֹב Je 15:3;—drag, a city עַד־הַנַּחַל 2 S 17:13, corpses Je 15:3; 22:7–9, captives, under fig. of sheep dragged off by wild beast 49:20 = 50:45 (𝔊 pass., whence Schwally Gie suppose a Niph. יִסָּחֲבוּ).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: people (2); drag away (1); people will drag \[him\] (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 22:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.19/#tree)

קְבוּרַ֥ת חֲמ֖וֹר יִקָּבֵ֑ר סָח֣וֹב וְהַשְׁלֵ֔ךְ מֵהָ֖לְאָה לְשַׁעֲרֵ֥י יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* \[the\].burial of.a.donkey he.will.be.buried people.will.drag.\[him\] and people.will.throw.\[him\].out from beyond (to).the gates of.Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

[2 Samuel 17:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.13/#tree)

וְאִם־אֶל־עִיר֙ יֵֽאָסֵ֔ף וְהִשִּׂ֧יאוּ כָֽל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶל־הָעִ֥יר הַהִ֖יא חֲבָלִ֑ים וְסָחַ֤בְנוּ אֹתוֹ֙ עַד־הַנַּ֔חַל עַ֛ד אֲשֶֽׁר־לֹא־נִמְצָ֥א שָׁ֖ם גַּם־צְרֽוֹר׃פ

*Word for word:* and if into a.city he.will.be.gathered and they.will.cause.to.bring all Israel to the city (the) that ropes and we.will.drag him to the wadi until that not it.has.been.found there also a.pebble

*JPS 1917:* Moreover, if he withdraw himself into a city, then shall all Israel bring up ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the valley until there be not one small stone found there.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5498.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5498/): 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).