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# שׂוּט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7750

**swerve** — 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

swerve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7750/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׂוּט: vb. swerve, fall away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7750/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swerve, fall away (akin to שָׂטָה q.v.; NH סוּט Hiph. is shake, move away; Assyrian šâṭu, rebel, Meissn90; Ethiopic ሦጠ: bring back, restore; in 𝔗 apostatize is סְטָא);— Pt. pl. cstr. וְשָׂטֵי כָזָב ψ 40:5 those falling away to falsehood (GunkSchöpf. 40 וְשָׂטָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[those who\] fall away (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 40:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.5/#tree)

אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי הַגֶּ֗בֶר אֲשֶׁר־שָׂ֣ם יְ֭הֹוָה מִבְטַח֑וֹ וְֽלֹא־פָנָ֥ה אֶל־רְ֝הָבִ֗ים וְשָׂטֵ֥י כָזָֽב׃

*Word for word:* how.blessed! \[is\].the man who he.has.made Yahweh of.confidence his.object and not he.has.turned to proud.people and \[those.who\].fall.away of.falsehood

*JPS 1917:* Happy is the man that hath made the LORD his trust, and hath not turned unto the arrogant, nor unto such as fall away treacherously.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7750.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7750/): 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).