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# שׂוּךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7753

**hedge up** — used 2 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

hedge up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7753/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׂוּךְ: vb. hedge fence up, about [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7753/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hedge or fence up, about (= II. סוּךְ, q.v.);— Pf. 2 ms. שַׂכְתָּ בַעֲדוֹ Jb 1:10 hast fenced him about (protectingly); Pt. שָׂךְ Ho 2:8 I will hedge up (obstruct) thy way (acc.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 3 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 (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[am\] about to fence up (1); have you put a hedge (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.8/#tree)

לָכֵ֛ן הִנְנִי־שָׂ֥ךְ אֶת־דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ בַּסִּירִ֑ים וְגָֽדַרְתִּי֙ אֶת־גְּדֵרָ֔הּ וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ לֹ֥א תִמְצָֽא׃

*Word for word:* therefore here I \[am\].about.to.fence.up (et) way your with (the) thorns and I.will.wall.up (et) wall her and paths her not she.will.find

*JPS 1917:* Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

[Job 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.10/#tree)

הֲלֹֽא־אַ֠תָּה שַׂ֣כְתָּ בַעֲד֧וֹ וּבְעַד־בֵּית֛וֹ וּבְעַ֥ד כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֖וֹ מִסָּבִ֑יב מַעֲשֵׂ֤ה יָדָיו֙ בֵּרַ֔כְתָּ וּמִקְנֵ֖הוּ פָּרַ֥ץ בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* ? not you have.you.put.a.hedge behind him and behind house his and behind all that \[belongs\].to him from round.about the.work his.hands his you.have.blessed and livestock his it.has.spread.out in the land

*JPS 1917:* Hast not Thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions are increased in the land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7753.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7753/): 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).