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# שֹׁחַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7810

**present** — used 23 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

present [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7810/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֹׁ֫חַד: n.m. present bribe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7810/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. present, specif. bribe;—שׁ׳ abs. Is 1:23 + 22 times;—bribe, usually to pervert justice, obj. of לָקַח Ex 23:8a (E), = Dt 16:19a; Dt 10:17; 1 S 8:3; 2 Ch 19:7 ψ 15:5; Pr 17:23; + inf., take bribe to do something, Dt 27:25; Ez 22:12; אָהַב שׁ׳ Is 1:23; cf. also 5:23; 33:15 Ex 23:8b (E) = Dt 16:19b, Mi 3:11 ψ 26:10; Pr 17:8; 21:14; אָהֳלֵי־שׁ׳ Jb 15:34, i.e. abode of bribe-givers; שׁ׳ Pr 6:35 (‖ כֹּפֶר) is hush-money, or (poss.) legal compensation (cf. Toy); שׁ׳ elsewhere (c. שָׁלַח) of bribing king to take sides 1 K 15:19; 2 K 16:8, cf. Is 45:13 (‖ מְחִיר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a bribe (14); bribe (4); of a bribe (3).

## In the verses

[Job 15:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.34/#tree)

כִּֽי־עֲדַ֣ת חָנֵ֣ף גַּלְמ֑וּד וְ֝אֵ֗שׁ אָכְלָ֥ה אָֽהֳלֵי־שֹֽׁחַד׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.company of.\[the\].godless \[is\].barren and fire it.consumes \[the\].tents of.a.bribe

*JPS 1917:* For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

[Proverbs 17:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.23/#tree)

שֹׁ֣חַד מֵ֭חֵיק רָשָׁ֣ע יִקָּ֑ח לְ֝הַטּ֗וֹת אָרְח֥וֹת מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

*Word for word:* a.bribe from.\[the\] bosom a.wicked.\[person\] he.accepts to turn.aside \[the\].paths of.justice

*JPS 1917:* A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7810.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7810/): 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).