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# סַרְעַפָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5634

**bough** — 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

bough [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5634/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַרְעַפָּה: n.f. bough [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5634/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bough (with infixed ר, cf. Ges§ 85 w, as transition-cons. Köii. 1, 472; cf. Biblical Aramaic; Kau§ 62 F. Selle De Aramaismis Lib. Ezech. 17); \*—pl. sf. סַרְעַפֹּתֶיּו Ez 31:5 (of Pharaoh under fig. of tree, cf. Co Berthol Toy).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 31:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.5/#tree)

עַל־כֵּן֙ גָּבְהָ֣א קֹמָת֔וֹ מִכֹּ֖ל עֲצֵ֣י הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה וַתִּרְבֶּ֨ינָה סַֽרְעַפֹּתָ֜יו וַתֶּאֱרַ֧כְנָה פֹארֹתָ֛יו מִמַּ֥יִם רַבִּ֖ים בְּשַׁלְּחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.was.tall height its more than.all the.trees of the.field and they.became.great boughs its and they.became.long branches its from waters many when it sent.out

*JPS 1917:* Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long, because of the multitude of waters, when it shot them forth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5634.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5634/): 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).