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# שֶׁבֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7675

**seat** — 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

seat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7675/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫בֶת: n.f. seat, dwelling, place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7675/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. seat, dwelling, place (properly Inf. Qal from ישׁב)—מְקוֹם הַשָּׁ֑בֶת 1 K 10:19 = 2 Ch 9:18 the place of the seat; שֶׁבֶת חָמָס Am 6:3 a seat (throne, or enthronement) of violence; לְשֶׁבֶת עָ֑ר Nu 21:15 toward the dwelling (i.e. place, location) of ʿÂr; יִשָּֽׂרְפוּ בַשָּׁ֑בֶת 2 S 23:7 they are burned in the (same) place, i.e. on the spot, but del. שׁ׳ We Dr Bu; שִׁבְתּוֹ Ob 3 his (thy) dwelling-place.—ii. שֶׁבֶת v. sub שׁבת.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Amos 6:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.3/#tree)

הַֽמְנַדִּ֖ים לְי֣וֹם רָ֑ע וַתַּגִּישׁ֖וּן שֶׁ֥בֶת חָמָֽס׃

*Word for word:* \[those who\].push.away (to).a day of.calamity and you have.brought.near a.seat of.violence

*JPS 1917:* Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

[2 Samuel 23:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.7/#tree)

וְאִישׁ֙ יִגַּ֣ע בָּהֶ֔ם יִמָּלֵ֥א בַרְזֶ֖ל וְעֵ֣ץ חֲנִ֑ית וּבָאֵ֕שׁ שָׂר֥וֹף יִשָּׂרְפ֖וּ בַּשָּֽׁבֶת׃פ

*Word for word:* and anyone \[who\].he.will.touch (in) them he.will.arm.himself iron and.\[the\] wood of.a.spear and with (the) fire completely.(burn) they.will.be.burned at the dwelling

*JPS 1917:* But the man that toucheth them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7675.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7675/): 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).