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# שְׁבִית

Biblical Hebrew

**exile** — used 3 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

exile [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d1_5b4_5d9_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁבִית: n.f. Qal Hiph. Qal Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d1_5b4_5d9_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id. (√ שׁבה 𝔊 Thes SS PreusschenZAW xv (1895), 1 ff. Krae Ez 16:53; \> √ שׁוב EwJBW v (1852–3), 216 f.; § 165 b Ol§ 412, 417 Bö§ 464 Kue TTijdschr. vii. 519 ff. OortIb. xiv. 157 SchwallyZAW viii (1888), 200 al.; Köii. 1, 166 f., 474; ii. 2. § 329 i thinks deriv. of שׁבה and שׁוב are confused, cf. Ew§ 166 b);—abs. שְׁבִית Nu 21:29; cstr. שְׁבוּת Ho 6:11 +, sf. שְׁבוּתְךָ Dt 30:3, שְׁבִיתְהֶן Ez 16:53a (v. infr.), שְׁבוּתֵיכֶם Zp 3:20 (read -תְכֶם Now GASm), etc. \[MT has שְׁבוּת, etc. 16 times, + Kt (שְׁבִית Qr) Zp 2:7 ψ 85:2; 126:4 + Ez 16:53a (Gi, but Baer שְׁבִיתְהֶן Kt et Qr, v. his note), + Qr (Kt שׁבית) Je 29:14; 49:39; Ez 16:53 b, c + v d (but וְשַׁבְתִּ֫י for וּשְׁב֯יו Vrss Comm.), La 2:14; Jb 42:10; שְׁבִית Kt et Qr Nu 21:29, שְׁבִיתַיִךְ Ez 16:53 (but Co Krae שְׁבוּתֵךְ); שְׁבִית prob. earlier Ew§; 186 b al. ψ 126:1 read prob. שְׁבִית for שִׁיבַת\];— in cl. נָתַן בַּשִּׁבִית Nu 21:29 (JE) give his daughters into captivity (or as captives, ‖ פְּלֵיטִם of sons, cf. Je 48:46); cf. (perhaps) La 1:7 (v. \[מִשְׁבָּת\] sub שׁבת). in phr. restore the captivity of, acc. after שׁוּב, הֵשִׁיב, י׳ subj. \[vb. Qal Dt 30:3 + 15 times, + Ez 16:53d ψ 126:1 (v. supr.); Hiph. Je 32:44 + 5 times, + Qal Kt, Hiph. Qr, Je 33:26 + 2 times\]: of Isr. (or Judah) Ho 6:11 (𝔊 joins to 7:1, so as gloss, We Now), Zp 2:7; 3:20; Dt 30:3; Je 29:14; 30:3, 18 (שׁ׳ אָהֳלֵי יַעֲקֹב), 31:23; 32:44; 33:7(×2), 11 (שׁ׳ הָאָרֶץ), v 26 La 2:14 (subj. proph.), Ez 16:53 a, c, d (on text v. supr.), 39:25 Am 9:14; Jo 4:1 ψ 14:7 = 53:7, 85:2; 126:1 (v. supr.), v 4. of other nations Je 48:47 (cf. v 46), 49:6, 39; Ez 29:14 (cf. v 13). appar. in more gen. sense, restore fortunes of Sodom Ez 16:53 b (Krae, cf. foll.). restore fortunes of individuals, Jb 42:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 85:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.85.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.85.2/#tree)

רָצִ֣יתָ יְהוָ֣ה אַרְצֶ֑ךָ שַׁ֝֗בְתָּ שְׁבִ֣ית יַעֲקֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* you.showed.favor.to O.Yahweh land your you.turned.back the.captivity of.Jacob

*JPS 1917:* LORD, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land, Thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob.

[Numbers 21:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.29/#tree)

אוֹי־לְךָ֣ מוֹאָ֔ב אָבַ֖דְתָּ עַם־כְּמ֑וֹשׁ נָתַ֨ן בָּנָ֤יו פְּלֵיטִם֙ וּבְנֹתָ֣יו בַּשְּׁבִ֔ית לְמֶ֥לֶךְ אֱמֹרִ֖י סִיחֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* woe! to you O.Moab you.have.perished O.people of.Chemosh he.has.made sons his fugitives and daughters his in (the) captivity of the.king of.\[the\].Amorite\[s\] Sihon

*JPS 1917:* Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh; he hath given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d1_5b4_5d9_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_5c1_5d1_5b4_5d9_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).