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# שִׂבְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7643

**Shebam** — used 5 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

Shebam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7643/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂבָם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7643/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Nu 32:3, שִֽׂבְמָה v 38 Jos 13:19; Is 16:8, 9; Je 48:32; in Moab (Reuben), near Heshbon (cf. also Jerome Is 16:8); Σεβαμα.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Sibmah (3); Sibmah (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 13:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.19/#tree)

וְקִרְיָתַ֣יִם וְשִׂבְמָ֔ה וְצֶ֥רֶת הַשַּׁ֖חַר צֶ֥רֶת הַשַּׁ֖חַר בְּהַ֥ר הָעֵֽמֶק׃

*Word for word:* and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth Shahar on the.hill of the.valley

*JPS 1917:* and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zerethshahar in the mount of the valley;

[Isaiah 16:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.8/#tree)

כִּ֣י שַׁדְמוֹת֩ חֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן אֻמְלָ֜ל גֶּ֣פֶן שִׂבְמָ֗ה בַּעֲלֵ֤י גוֹיִם֙ הָלְמ֣וּ שְׂרוּקֶּ֔יהָ עַד־יַעְזֵ֥ר נָגָ֖עוּ תָּ֣עוּ מִדְבָּ֑ר שְׁלֻ֣חוֹתֶ֔יהָ נִטְּשׁ֖וּ עָ֥בְרוּ יָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.terraced.fields of.Heshbon it.has.languished the.vine\[s\] of.Sibmah rulers of.nations they.have.struck.down its.choice grapes to Jazer they.reached they.wandered \[the\].wilderness shoots its they.were.spread.out they.passed.over \[the\].sea

*JPS 1917:* For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7643/): 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).