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# סִרְפָּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5636

**nettle** — 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

nettle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5636/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a desert-plant, contrasted with הֲדַס, myrtle: תַּחַת הַסּ׳ יַעֲלֶה הֲדַס Is 55:13; not clearly identif.; 𝔊 κόνυζα, 𝔖 ܨܳܬܪܳܐ 𝔙 urtica.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: nettle (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 55:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.55.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.55.13/#tree)

תַּ֤חַת הַֽנַּעֲצוּץ֙ יַעֲלֶ֣ה בְר֔וֹשׁ וְתַ֥חַת הַסִּרְפַּ֖ד יַעֲלֶ֣ה הֲדַ֑ס וְהָיָ֤ה לַֽיהוָה֙ לְשֵׁ֔ם לְא֥וֹת עוֹלָ֖ם לֹ֥א יִכָּרֵֽת׃ס

*Word for word:* in.place.of the thornbush it.will.grow.up a.cypress and in.place.of the nettle it.will.grow.up a.myrtle.tree and it.will.become for Yahweh (into).a name (into).a sign of.perpetuity \[which\].not it.will.be.cut.down

*JPS 1917:* Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the LORD for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5636.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5636/): 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).