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# שְׁדֵפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7711

**blighted thing** — 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

blighted thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7711/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁדֵפָה: n.f. blighted blasted thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7711/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. blighted or blasted thing;—וּשׁ׳ לִפְנֵי קָמָה 2 K 19:26 a blasted thing before (the) standing grain, i.e. before maturity (\> שְׁדֵמָה field, as ‖ Is 37:27, cf. Di), but improb.; Th proposes וּשׁ׳ ל׳ קָדִים; Kit שְׁדֻף הַקָּדִים; We (and most since) וּשְׁדֵכָּֽה ׃ לְפָנַי קֻמְךָ וגו׳ (Che: וּשְׁפָיִים, for וּשְׁדֵפָה).

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: scorching (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 19:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.26/#tree)

וְיֹֽשְׁבֵיהֶן֙ קִצְרֵי־יָ֔ד חַ֖תּוּ וַיֵּבֹ֑שׁוּ הָי֞וּ עֵ֤שֶׂב שָׂדֶה֙ וִ֣ירַק דֶּ֔שֶׁא חֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֔וֹת וּשְׁדֵפָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י קָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and inhabitants their \[were\].short of.hand they.were.dismayed and they.were.ashamed they.were vegetation of.\[the\].field and greenery of.fresh.grass grass of.roofs and scorching before standing.grain

*JPS 1917:* Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it is grown up.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7711/): 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).