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# שְׂבָכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7639

**lattice-work** — used 16 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

lattice-work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7639/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂבָכָה: n.f. lattice-work, network [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7639/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lattice-work, network;—abs. ר׳ 1 K 7:18 +, pl. שְׂבָכוֹת v 41 +, שְׂבָכִים v 17;— prob. window-lattice 2 K 1:2. net-ornament on pillars, 1 K 7:17(×2) (om. 𝔊 Kit Benz), v 18, 20 (crpt., (cf. Kit Benz), v 41, 42(×2) 2 Ch 4:12, 13(×2) 2 K 25:17(×2) ‖ Je 52:22, 23. network, toils, for catching animals (fig.) Jb 18:8 (+ רֶשֶׁת, פַּח, צַמִּים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: network (5); networks (5); a network (3).

## In the verses

[Job 18:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.8/#tree)

כִּֽי־שֻׁלַּ֣ח בְּרֶ֣שֶׁת בְּרַגְלָ֑יו וְעַל־שְׂ֝בָכָ֗ה יִתְהַלָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.is.caught in a.net by feet his and on a.network he.walks.about

*JPS 1917:* For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.

[Jeremiah 52:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.23/#tree)

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ הָֽרִמֹּנִ֔ים תִּשְׁעִ֥ים וְשִׁשָּׁ֖ה ר֑וּחָה כָּל־הָרִמּוֹנִ֥ים מֵאָ֛ה עַל־הַשְּׂבָכָ֖ה סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the pomegranates ninety and six side to.\[the\] all the pomegranates \[were\].one.hundred on the network all.around

*JPS 1917:* And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the outside; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round about.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7639.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7639/): 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).