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# סֵפֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5602

**bowl** — 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

bowl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5602/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֵ֫פֶל: bowl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5602/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bowl (√ unknown; perhaps foreign word; Assyrian saplu, bowl, basin (DlHWB 508 SchrCOT 2 K 9:2) \[occurs as object of tribute or plunder\]; NH = BH; 𝔗 סִיפְּלָא bowl, basin, ChrPal. Aramaic ܣܝܦܠܐ (wash-) basin SchwallyIdiot. 64; Arabic سِفْلٌ bowl, jar FlLevy NHWB iii. 320; Kl. Schr. ii. 556 f. is perhaps loan-word Frä67 f.);—abs. מְלֹא הַסּ׳ Ju 6:38; for drinking, cstr. סֵפֶל אַדִּירִים 5:25 a bowl of (fit for) nobles, huge bowl (GFM).

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 5:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.25/#tree)

מַ֥יִם שָׁאַ֖ל חָלָ֣ב נָתָ֑נָה בְּסֵ֥פֶל אַדִּירִ֖ים הִקְרִ֥יבָה חֶמְאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* water he.asked milk she.gave in a.bowl of.nobles she.brought.near curd\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Water he asked, milk she gave him; in a lordly bowl she brought him curd.

[Judges 6:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.38/#tree)

וַיְהִי־כֵ֕ן וַיַּשְׁכֵּם֙ מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת וַיָּ֖זַר אֶת־הַגִּזָּ֑ה וַיִּ֤מֶץ טַל֙ מִן־הַגִּזָּ֔ה מְל֥וֹא הַסֵּ֖פֶל מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was so and he.rose.early from.\[the\] next.day and he.squeezed.out (et) the fleece and he.drained dew from the fleece the.fullness of the.bowl water

*JPS 1917:* And it was so; for he rose up early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5602.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5602/): 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).