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# סֹךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5520

**thicket** — used 4 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/1505/5520/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֹךְ: thicket, covert, lair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5520/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thicket, covert, lair;—only sf. סֻכּוֹ Je 25:38 lair of י׳, under fig. of lion (but Gie סֻבְּכוֹ cf. 4:7), סֻכֹּה ψ 10:9 of lion (sim. of wicked; Bae סֻכָּה; Lag Che We סֻבְּכוֹ); סוּכּוֹ 76:3 his covert (of י׳ under fig. of lion; ‖ מְעוֹנָתוֹ); for סֻכֹּה in his covert ψ 27:5 Qr read perhaps, with Kt סֻכָּה a booth (Ol Hup-Now Bae cf. 31:21).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lair (3); refuge (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 76:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.3/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י בְשָׁלֵ֣ם סֻכּ֑וֹ וּמְע֖וֹנָת֣וֹ בְצִיּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in Salem lair his and den his in Zion

*JPS 1917:* In Salem also is set His tabernacle, and His dwelling-place in Zion.

[Psalms 27:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.27.5/#tree)

כִּ֤י יִצְפְּנֵ֨נִי ׀ בְּסֻכֹּה֮ בְּי֪וֹם רָ֫עָ֥ה יַ֭סְתִּרֵנִי בְּסֵ֣תֶר אָהֳל֑וֹ בְּ֝צ֗וּר יְרוֹמְמֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he will.conceal.me in refuge his in a.day of.trouble he will.hide.me in the.hiding.place his.tent his on a.rock he will.raise.me.up

*JPS 1917:* For He concealeth me in His pavilion in the day of evil; He hideth me in the covert of His tent; He lifteth me up upon a rock.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5520.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5520/): 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).