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# סִירָה

Biblical Hebrew

**turning aside** — 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

turning aside [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thorns (4); hooks (1).

## In the verses

[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.

[Ecclesiastes 7:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.6/#tree)

כִּ֣י כְק֤וֹל הַסִּירִים֙ תַּ֣חַת הַסִּ֔יר כֵּ֖ן שְׂחֹ֣ק הַכְּסִ֑יל וְגַם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל׃

*Word for word:* (dm) like the.sound of.(the) thorns under the pot so the.laughter of the.fool and also this \[is\].futility

*JPS 1917:* For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4/): 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).