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# שׁוּף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7779

**bruise** — used 4 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

bruise [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7779/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּף: vb. bruise [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7779/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bruise (NH id., Aramaic שׁוּף, שְׁפַף, ܫܳܦ rub off, away, grind (Ex 32:20 𝔗 𝔙 for טָחַן); v. especially Dr Gn; \> Di al. think ‖ form of I. שׁאף);— Impf. 3 ms. + 2 ms. הוּא יְשׁוּפְךָ רֹאשׁ וְאַתָּה תְּשׁוּפֶנּוּ עָקֵב Gn 3:15; אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָה יְשׁוּפֵנִי Jb 9:17; אַךְ חשֶׁךְ יְשׁוּפֵנִי ψ 139:11 meaning unsuitable, read perhaps c. Ew al. יְשׂוּכֵּנִי cover, screen, me.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (2); it (1); you (1).

## In the verses

[Job 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.17/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְהִרְבָּ֖ה פְצָעַ֣י חִנָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* who with a.storm he crushes.me and he.increases bruises my without.cause

*JPS 1917:* He that would break me with a tempest, and multiply my wounds without cause;

[Psalms 139:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.11/#tree)

וָ֭אֹמַר אַךְ־חֹ֣שֶׁךְ יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְ֝לַ֗יְלָה א֣וֹר בַּעֲדֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* and I.said surely darkness it will.crush.me and \[will.be\].night \[the\].light behind me

*JPS 1917:* And if I say: 'Surely the darkness shall envelop me, and the light about me shall be night';

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7779.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7779/): 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).