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# סָכַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5535

**be silent** — 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

be silent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5535/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָכַת: vb. be silent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5535/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be silent (Arabic سَكَتَ id., Lane1389; Sam. ࠎࠊࠕ pay attention, cf. Thes; Arabic = also be quiet (in gen.), = Syriac ܫܟܰܬ, a differentiated √?);— declar. shew silence: Imv. ms. תַסְכֵּת Dt 27:9 keep silence and listen (cf. נִסְכַּת Ecclus 13:23).

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 (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: keep silent (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 27:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.9/#tree)

וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר מֹשֶׁה֙ וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֣ים הַלְוִיִּ֔ם אֶ֥ל כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר הַסְכֵּ֤ת ׀ וּשְׁמַע֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַיּ֤וֹם הַזֶּה֙ נִהְיֵ֣יתָֽ לְעָ֔ם לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.spoke Moses and the priests the Levites to all Israel (cmp) keep.silent and listen O.Israel the day (the) this you.have.become (into).a people of Yahweh God your

*JPS 1917:* And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke unto all Israel, saying: 'Keep silence, and hear, O Israel; this day thou art become a people unto the LORD thy God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5535.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5535/): 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).