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# שׁוּק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7784

**street** — 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

street [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7784/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** (√ of foll., meaning dub.; Arabic سَاقَ is drive beast, etc., carry on affairs; Ethiopic ሶቀ: sustain; cf. Arabic سَاقٌ leg, especially shank, Aramaic שׁוֹקָא leg (rare), ܫܳܩܳܐ leg, thigh; connexion dub. with Assyrian sûḳu, street, Aramaic שׁוּקָא, ܫܽܘܩܳܐ, street, market-place (whence Arabic سُوقٌ loan-word according to Frä 187; but then س = שׁ?), Palm. שוק id., Lzb 373).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: street (3); streets (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.8/#tree)

עֹבֵ֣ר בַּ֭שּׁוּק אֵ֣צֶל פִּנָּ֑הּ וְדֶ֖רֶךְ בֵּיתָ֣הּ יִצְעָֽד׃

*Word for word:* \[he.was\].passing.by in the street beside corner her and the.direction her.house her he.strode

*JPS 1917:* Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house;

[Ecclesiastes 12:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.4/#tree)

וְסֻגְּר֤וּ דְלָתַ֙יִם֙ בַּשּׁ֔וּק בִּשְׁפַ֖ל ק֣וֹל הַֽטַּחֲנָ֑ה וְיָקוּם֙ לְק֣וֹל הַצִּפּ֔וֹר וְיִשַּׁ֖חוּ כָּל־בְּנ֥וֹת הַשִּֽׁיר׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.shut.up \[the\].doors on the street when becomes.low the.sound of the.grinding.mill and someone.will.arise to the.sound of.(the) bird and they.will.be.reduced all the.daughters of.(the) song

*JPS 1917:* And the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low; and one shall start up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7784.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7784/): 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).