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# סֵעֵף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5588

**divided** — 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

divided [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5588/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֵעֵף²: adj. divided, half-hearted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5588/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Köii.106) adj. divided, half-hearted;—pl. abs. as subst., in religious sense, סֵעֲפִים שָׂנֵאתִי ψ Ps 119:113 half-hearted ones do I hate.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: half-hearted people (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:113](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.113/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.113/#tree)

סֵעֲפִ֥ים שָׂנֵ֑אתִי וְֽתוֹרָתְךָ֥ אָהָֽבְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* half-hearted.people I.hate and law your I.love

*JPS 1917:* I hate them that are of a double mind; but Thy law do I love.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5588.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5588/): 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).