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# שָׁבָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7616

**flame** — 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

flame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7616/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁבָבִים: pl. splinters; [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7616/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. probably splinters;—שׁ׳ יִהְיֶה עֵגֶל שֹׁמְרוֹן Ho 8:6 (cf. We; Vrss appar. conjecture).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fragments (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 8:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.6/#tree)

כִּ֤י מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְה֔וּא חָרָ֣שׁ עָשָׂ֔הוּ וְלֹ֥א אֱלֹהִ֖ים ה֑וּא כִּֽי־שְׁבָבִ֣ים יִֽהְיֶ֔ה עֵ֖גֶל שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[it is\].from.Israel and it a.craftsman he made.it and not \[is\].God it (dm) fragments it.will.become the.calf of.Samaria

*JPS 1917:* For from Israel is even this: the craftsman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in shivers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7616.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7616/): 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).