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# שׁוֹט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7752

**scourge** — used 11 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

scourge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7752/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹט: n.m. scourge, whip [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7752/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 28:15 scourge, whip (NH id., so Arabic سَوْطٌ, سَاطَ (و) mix, stir about and beat; Ethiopic ሰውጥ: Aramaic שׁוֹטָא, ܫܰܘܛܳܐ; from foregoing? cf. Germ. streifen; or onomat., cf. swish, switch?);—שׁ׳ abs. Is 10:26 +, cstr. Jb 5:21; pl. שׁוֹטִים 1 K 12:11 +;— scourge, for chastisement, 1 K 12:11, 14 = 2 Ch 10:11, 12 (all c. vb. יִסַּר); fig. of national scourge (wielded by י׳) Is 10:26; 28:15 (Qr; \> Kt שׁיט), v 18 (both שׁ׳ שׁוֹטֵף, v. שׁטף), calamity Jb 9:23; lash of (accusing) tongue Jb 5:21 (read מִשּׁ׳ as 𝔊). whip, for horse, קוֹל שׁ׳ Na 3:2 i.e. crack of whip, שׁ׳ לַסּוּס Pr 26:3 (‖ שֵׁבֶט לְגֵו כְּסִילִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 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: whips (4); a scourge (3); a whip (2).

## In the verses

[Job 9:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.23/#tree)

אִם־שׁ֭וֹט יָמִ֣ית פִּתְאֹ֑ם לְמַסַּ֖ת נְקִיִּ֣ם יִלְעָֽג׃

*Word for word:* if a.scourge it.kills suddenly (to).\[the\] despair of.innocent.\[ones\] he.mocks

*JPS 1917:* If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless.

[Job 5:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.21/#tree)

בְּשׁ֣וֹט לָ֭שׁוֹן תֵּחָבֵ֑א וְֽלֹא־תִירָ֥א מִ֝שֹּׁ֗ד כִּ֣י יָבֽוֹא׃

*Word for word:* in.\[the\] whip of.\[the\].tongue you.will.be.hidden and not you.will.be.afraid from destruction (dm) it.will.come

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7752.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7752/): 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).