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# שַׁוְשָׁא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7798

**Shavsha** — 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

Shavsha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7798/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁוְשָׁא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7798/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 1 Ch 18:16, v. שְׂרָיָה.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 18:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.16/#tree)

וְצָד֧וֹק בֶּן־אֲחִיט֛וּב וַאֲבִימֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּן־אֶבְיָתָ֖ר כֹּהֲנִ֑ים וְשַׁוְשָׁ֖א סוֹפֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and Zadok the.son of.Ahitub and Abimelech the.son of.Abiathar \[were\].priests and Shavsha \[was\].secretary

*JPS 1917:* And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7798/): 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).