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# שָׂהֵד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7717

**witness** — 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

witness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7717/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂהֵד: witness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7717/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] witness (Aramaic loan-word = Heb. עֵד; √ סְהַד, ܣܗܰܕ );—sf. שָֽׂהֲדִי Jb 16:19 (‖ עֵדִי).—שָֽׂהֲדוּתָא Gn 31:47 v. Biblical Aramaic Lex.

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

## In the verses

[Job 16:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.19/#tree)

גַּם־עַ֭תָּה הִנֵּה־בַשָּׁמַ֣יִם עֵדִ֑י וְ֝שָׂהֲדִ֗י בַּמְּרוֹמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* also now there! \[is\].in the heavens witness my and witness my \[is\].in.(the) high places

*JPS 1917:* Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He that testifieth of me is on high.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7717.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7717/): 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).