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# סָחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5500

**scrape** — 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

scrape [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5500/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָחָה: vb. scrape );—only scrape clean, scour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5500/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. scrape (Arabic سَحَا (سحو and سحى Lane1322, scrape off, clear away; cf. Talm. סְחוּתָא, סְחִיתָא refuse, 𝔗 סְחִיתָא dirt, dung);—only scrape clean, scour, Pf. 1 s. consec. וְסִחֵתִ֫י עֲפָרָהּ מִמֶּנָּה Ez 26:4 and I will scrape clean her dust from her.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 26:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.4/#tree)

וְשִׁחֲת֞וּ חֹמ֣וֹת צֹ֗ר וְהָֽרְסוּ֙ מִגְדָּלֶ֔יהָ וְסִֽחֵיתִ֥י עֲפָרָ֖הּ מִמֶּ֑נָּה וְנָתַתִּ֥י אוֹתָ֖הּ לִצְחִ֥יחַ סָֽלַע׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.destroy the.walls of.Tyre and they.will.tear.down towers its and I.will.scrape.away dust its from it and I.will.make it into bareness of.rock

*JPS 1917:* And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5500.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5500/): 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).