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# סִתְרָה

Biblical Hebrew

**shelter** — 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

shelter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5ea_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִתְרָה: n.f. shelter, protection [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5ea_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. shelter, protection, יְהִי עֲלֵיכֶם ס׳ Dt 32:38 (read perhaps יהיו, cf. Dr) let them (the strange gods) be over you as a shelter.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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 shelter (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 32:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.38/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֨ר חֵ֤לֶב זְבָחֵ֙ימוֹ֙ יֹאכֵ֔לוּ יִשְׁתּ֖וּ יֵ֣ין נְסִיכָ֑ם יָק֙וּמוּ֙ וְיַעְזְרֻכֶ֔ם יְהִ֥י עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם סִתְרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* which the.fat their.sacrifices their they.ate they.drank the.wine drink-offering their let.them.arise and let them.help.you let.it.be over you a.shelter

*JPS 1917:* Who did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offering? let him rise up and help you, let him be your protection.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5ea_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5ea_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/): 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).