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# שׁוּמִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7762

**heavens** — 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

heavens [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7762/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּם: garlic [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7762/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] garlic;—pl. שׁוּמִים Nu 11:5 (J) (allium sativum, Linn, Thes Löw No. 336 Post Hast. DB ii. 110 TristrNHB 448 (or allium Ascalonicum, cf. Buhl, after TristrFFP 430; v. this and PostFlora 789 for many kinds of allium); Arabic ثُومٌ, Aramaic תּוּמָא, ܬܘܽܡܳܐ,, Assyrian šûmu).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 11:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.5/#tree)

זָכַ֙רְנוּ֙ אֶת־הַדָּגָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־נֹאכַ֥ל בְּמִצְרַ֖יִם חִנָּ֑ם אֵ֣ת הַקִּשֻּׁאִ֗ים וְאֵת֙ הָֽאֲבַטִּחִ֔ים וְאֶת־הֶחָצִ֥יר וְאֶת־הַבְּצָלִ֖ים וְאֶת־הַשּׁוּמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* we.remember (et) the fish which we.ate in Egypt for.nothing (et) the cucumbers and (et) the watermelons and (et) the leek\[s\] and (et) the onions and (et) the garlic(s)

*JPS 1917:* We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7762.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7762/): 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).