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# סָמַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5568

**bristle up** — used 2 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

bristle up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5568/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָמַר: vb. bristle up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5568/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bristle up (LagBN 106 cp. Arabic شَمَرَ contract; in that case ס׳ for שׂ׳);— Pf. 3 ms. ס׳ מִפַּחְדְּךָ בְשָׂרִי ψ 119:120 from fear of thee did my flesh bristle up, ‘creep.’ Impf. תְּסַמֵּר שַׂעֲרַת בְּשָׂרִי Jb 4:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: it bristles up (1); it made bristle up (1).

## In the verses

[Job 4:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.15/#tree)

וְ֭רוּחַ עַל־פָּנַ֣י יַחֲלֹ֑ף תְּ֝סַמֵּ֗ר שַֽׂעֲרַ֥ת בְּשָׂרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and a.wind over face my it.passed.over it.made.bristle.up the.hair my.flesh my

*JPS 1917:* Then a spirit passed before my face, that made the hair of my flesh to stand up.

[Psalms 119:120](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.120/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.120/#tree)

סָמַ֣ר מִפַּחְדְּךָ֣ בְשָׂרִ֑י וּֽמִמִּשְׁפָּטֶ֥יךָ יָרֵֽאתִי׃

*Word for word:* it.bristles.up from dread of.you flesh my and from judgments your I.am.afraid

*JPS 1917:* My flesh shuddereth for fear of Thee; and I am afraid of Thy judgments.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5568.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5568/): 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).