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# שִׁבֹּלֶת

Biblical Hebrew

**flowing stream** — 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

flowing stream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d1_5b9_5bc_5dc_5b6_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת: n.f. flowing stream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d1_5b9_5bc_5dc_5b6_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. flowing stream;—שׁ׳ abs. ψ 69:3, as test of dialect Ju 12:6 (cf; סִבֹּלֶת and GFM); cstr. שׁ׳ מַיִם ψ 69:16, שׁ׳ הַנָּהָר Is 27:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a flood (2); the flowing stream (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 69:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.3/#tree)

טָבַ֤עְתִּי ׀ בִּיוֵ֣ן מְ֭צוּלָה וְאֵ֣ין מָעֳמָ֑ד בָּ֥אתִי בְמַעֲמַקֵּי־מַ֝֗יִם וְשִׁבֹּ֥לֶת שְׁטָפָֽתְנִי׃

*Word for word:* I.have.sunk in mire of.depth and there.\[is\].not a.foothold I.have.come in depths of.water and a.flood it has.overflowed.me

*JPS 1917:* I am sunk in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, and the flood overwhelmeth me.

[Psalms 69:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.16/#tree)

אַל־תִּשְׁטְפֵ֤נִי ׀ שִׁבֹּ֣לֶת מַ֭יִם וְאַל־תִּבְלָעֵ֣נִי מְצוּלָ֑ה וְאַל־תֶּאְטַר־עָלַ֖י בְּאֵ֣ר פִּֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* not let it.overflow.me a.flood of.water and not let it.swallow.me.up \[the\].deep and not let.it.close over me \[the\].pit mouth its

*JPS 1917:* Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d1_5b9_5bc_5dc_5b6_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d1_5b9_5bc_5dc_5b6_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).