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# שָׁבָץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7661

**hath seized me** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hath seized me [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7661/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁבָץ: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7661/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. (meaning and connexion with above √ dub.);—אֲחָזַנִי הַשּׁ׳ 2 S 1:9 הַשּׁ׳ hath seized me, i.e. perhaps cramp; (EwG iii. 147 Th Ke, cf. Dr); al. giddiness (Thes Klo HPS), as intricacy, confusion; Kit Bu Now leave undecided.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.9/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י עֲמָד־נָ֤א עָלַי֙ וּמֹ֣תְתֵ֔נִי כִּ֥י אֲחָזַ֖נִי הַשָּׁבָ֑ץ כִּֽי־כָל־ע֥וֹד נַפְשִׁ֖י בִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to me stand please over me and kill me (dm) it has.seized.me (the) dizziness (dm) all still life my \[is\].in me

*JPS 1917:* And he said unto me: Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for the agony hath taken hold of me; because my life is just yet in me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7661.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7661/): 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).