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# סְתָו

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5638

**winter** — 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

winter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5638/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סתו: n.m. winter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5638/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** Kt, סְתָיו Qr n.m. winter (loan-wd. from Aramaic; cf. Syriac ܣܰܬܘܳܐ, 𝔗 סִיתְוָא; Arabic شِتَآءٌ Lane1504; prob. orig. שׂ׳, cf. SchwallyIdiot. 64; on ו as old nominat. ending (ס׳ for šutayu) cf. LagBN 190 Anm.);—הַסְּתָ֯ו עָבָ֑ר Ct 2:11.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 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: winter (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.11/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֥ה הַסְּתָ֖יו עָבָ֑ר הַגֶּ֕שֶׁם חָלַ֖ף הָלַ֥ךְ לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) there! the winter it.has.passed the rain it.has.passed.away it.has.gone (for itself

*JPS 1917:* For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5638.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5638/): 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).