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# שְׂאֵת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7613

**exaltation** — used 6 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

exaltation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7613/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂאֵת: n.f. exaltation, dignity swelling uprising [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7613/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. 1. exaltation, dignity. 2. swelling. 3. uprising;—שׂ׳ abs. Gn 4:7 +, cstr. Lv 13:28 +; sf. שְׂאֵתוֹ Jb 13:11 +; (מִ)שֵּׂתוֹ 41:17;— dignity Gn 49:3 (dignity of first-born), ψ 62:5, of Chaldeans Hb 1:7; of God, his exaltation, loftiness Jb 13:11; 31:23. swelling, eruption, בְּעוֹר בָּשָׂר Lv 13:2 (+ סַפַּחַת, בַּהֶרֶת), cf. 14:56 (+ id.); also 13:10(×2), 19, 28, שׂ׳ הַנֶּגַע v 43 (all P). uprising, Jb 41:17 at his uprising the mighty are in dread. Gn 4:7 is dub.;—is there not acceptance? 𝔖 𝔙 al.; forgiveness 𝔗 Holz al.; uplifting of countenance, cheerfulness, Ew De Ke Di Kau.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: majesty (2); dignity (1); loftiness (1).

## In the verses

[Job 41:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.17/#tree)

מִ֭שֵּׂתוֹ יָג֣וּרוּ אֵלִ֑ים מִ֝שְּׁבָרִ֗ים יִתְחַטָּֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* from uprising its they.are.afraid mighty.ones from crashing(s) they.are.bewildered

*JPS 1917:* When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid; by reason of despair they are beside themselves.

[Job 31:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.23/#tree)

כִּ֤י פַ֣חַד אֵ֭לַי אֵ֣יד אֵ֑ל וּ֝מִשְּׂאֵת֗וֹ לֹ֣א אוּכָֽל׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[was\].a.fear to me (the).calamity of.God and from majesty his not I.am.able

*JPS 1917:* For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His majesty I could do nothing.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7613.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7613/): 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).