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# שׂוֹכָה

Biblical Hebrew

**branch** — 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

branch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5d5_5b9_5db_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׂוֹכָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5d5_5b9_5db_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.,—cstr. שׂוֹכַת עֵצִים Ju 9:48 + perhaps abs. שׂוֹכָה v 49 (so 𝔊 Doorn for MT שׂוֹכֹה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a branch (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 9:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.48/#tree)

וַיַּ֨עַל אֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ הַר־צַלְמ֗וֹן הוּא֮ וְכָל־הָעָ֣ם אֲשֶׁר־אִתּוֹ֒ וַיִּקַּח֩ אֲבִימֶ֨לֶךְ אֶת־הַקַּרְדֻּמּ֜וֹת בְּיָד֗וֹ וַיִּכְרֹת֙ שׂוֹכַ֣ת עֵצִ֔ים וַיִּ֨שָּׂאֶ֔הָ וַיָּ֖שֶׂם עַל־שִׁכְמ֑וֹ וַיֹּ֜אמֶר אֶל־הָעָ֣ם אֲשֶׁר־עִמּ֗וֹ מָ֤ה רְאִיתֶם֙ עָשִׂ֔יתִי מַהֲר֖וּ עֲשׂ֥וּ כָמֽוֹנִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up Abimelech the.mountain of.Zalmon he and all the people which \[was\].with him and he.took Abimelech (et) the axes in hand his and he.cut.off a.branch of.wood(s) and he lifted.it.up and he.put.\[it\] on shoulder his and he.said to the people which \[was\].with him whatever you.have.seen I.have.done hurry do like me

*JPS 1917:* And Abimelech got him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder; and he said unto the people that were with him: 'What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5d5_5b9_5db_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c2_5d5_5b9_5db_5b8_5d4/): 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).