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# שֵׂבֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7664

**hope** — used 2 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

hope [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7664/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׂ֫בֶר: n.m. hope [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7664/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. hope;—sf. שִׂבְרִי ψ 119:116, שִׂבְרוֹ עַל־י׳ 146:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 146:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.146.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.146.5/#tree)

אַשְׁרֵ֗י שֶׁ֤אֵ֣ל יַעֲקֹ֣ב בְּעֶזְר֑וֹ שִׂ֝בְר֗וֹ עַל־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* how.blessed! \[is one\].who.the.God of.Jacob \[is\].(in) help his hope his \[is\].on Yahweh God his

*JPS 1917:* Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

[Psalms 119:116](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.116/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.116/#tree)

סָמְכֵ֣נִי כְאִמְרָתְךָ֣ וְאֶֽחְיֶ֑ה וְאַל־תְּ֝בִישֵׁ֗נִי מִשִּׂבְרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* sustain me according to your.word so that.I.may.live and do.not put me.to.shame from hope my

*JPS 1917:* Uphold me according unto Thy word, that I may live; and put me not to shame in my hope.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7664.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7664/): 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).