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# שְׂאֵת

Biblical Hebrew

**exaltation** — used 7 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/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d0_5b5_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂאֵת: n.f. exaltation, dignity swelling uprising [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d0_5b5_5ea/#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, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: a swelling (3); swelling (2); \[is\] the swelling (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 14:56](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.56/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.56/#tree)

וְלַשְׂאֵ֥ת וְלַסַּפַּ֖חַת וְלַבֶּהָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and to (the) swelling and to.(the) flaking skin and to.(the) bright spot

*JPS 1917:* and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;

[Leviticus 13:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.19/#tree)

וְהָיָ֞ה בִּמְק֤וֹם הַשְּׁחִין֙ שְׂאֵ֣ת לְבָנָ֔ה א֥וֹ בַהֶ֖רֶת לְבָנָ֣ה אֲדַמְדָּ֑מֶת וְנִרְאָ֖ה אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be in the.place of the.boil a.swelling white or a.bright.spot white reddish and he.will.present.himself to the priest

*JPS 1917:* and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d0_5b5_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d0_5b5_5ea/): 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).