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# סְנֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5572

**blackberry bush** — used 6 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

blackberry bush [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5572/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְנֶה: n.m. black-berry bush [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5572/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 3:2 a thorny bush, perhaps black-berry bush (cf. LöwNo. 219; rubus fruticosus Linn.; Aramaic סַנְיָא, ܣܰܢܝܳܐ thorn-bush, Assyrian sinû, Meissner ZA vi. 293 blackberry bush (M. thinks Aramaic ס׳ loan-word from this); Arabic سَنًا senna, Lane 1449);—abs. ס׳ Ex 3:2(×2), 4, סְנֶ֑ה v 2, 3 (all E) Dt 33:16 (akin to E).

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: bush (3); the bush (2); (of) \[the\] bush (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 3:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.3.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.3.3/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֔ה אָסֻֽרָה־נָּ֣א וְאֶרְאֶ֔ה אֶת־הַמַּרְאֶ֥ה הַגָּדֹ֖ל הַזֶּ֑ה מַדּ֖וּעַ לֹא־יִבְעַ֥ר הַסְּנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Moses I.will.turn.aside please so that.I.may.see (et) the sight (the) great (the) this why? not is.it.burning the bush

*JPS 1917:* And Moses said: 'I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.'

[Deuteronomy 33:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.16/#tree)

וּמִמֶּ֗גֶד אֶ֚רֶץ וּמְלֹאָ֔הּ וּרְצ֥וֹן שֹׁכְנִ֖י סְנֶ֑ה תָּב֙וֹאתָה֙ לְרֹ֣אשׁ יוֹסֵ֔ף וּלְקָדְקֹ֖ד נְזִ֥יר אֶחָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and from.\[the\] excellent.gift of.\[the\].earth and what fills.it and.\[the\] favor of.\[the.one.who\].dwelt (of).\[the\].bush may it.come to the.head of.Joseph and to the.crown.of.the.head of.the.consecrated.one his.brothers his

*JPS 1917:* And for the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof, and the good will of Him that dwelt in the bush; let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him that is prince among his brethren.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5572.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5572/): 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).