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# שֶׁבְנָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7644

**Shebna** — used 9 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

Shebna [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7644/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁבְנָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7644/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. secretary and major-domo of Hezekiah; -נָא Is 22:15, 36:22; 37:2 = 2 K 18:37; 19:2; Is 36:3, 11 = -נָה 2 K 18:18, 26.—Σομνας.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Shebna (9).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 22:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.15/#tree)

כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה צְבָא֑וֹת לֶךְ־בֹּא֙ אֶל־הַסֹּכֵ֣ן הַזֶּ֔ה עַל־שֶׁבְנָ֖א אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh of.hosts come go to the steward (the) this to Shebna who \[is\].over the house

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts: Go, get thee unto this steward, even unto Shebna, who is over the house:

[Isaiah 36:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.3/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֥א אֵלָ֛יו אֶלְיָקִ֥ים בֶּן־חִלְקִיָּ֖הוּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־הַבָּ֑יִת וְשֶׁבְנָא֙ הַסֹּפֵ֔ר וְיוֹאָ֥ח בֶּן־אָסָ֖ף הַמַּזְכִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out to him Eliakim the.son of.Hilkiah who \[was\].over the house and Shebna the secretary and Joah the.son of.Asaph the recorder

*JPS 1917:* Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7644.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7644/): 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).