[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%94/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ש](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/shin/)‎ / שָׂחָה‎

# שָׂחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7811

**swim** — used 3 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

swim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7811/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂחָה: vb. swim Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7811/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swim (NH סָחוּ swimming; 𝔗 סְחָא, Syriac ܣܚܳܐ swim, bathe, also סָחְיָא, סַחְיָנָא, שָׂחְיָנָא swimmer; Aph. wash);— Pt. + Inf. cstr. כַּאֲשֶׁר יְפָרֵשׂ הַשּׂחֶה לִשְׂחוֹת Is 25:11. Impf. 1 s. אַשְׂחֶה ψ 6:7 I make my bed swim (with my tears; another view sub שִׂיחַ Qal 1).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I make swim (1); swim (1); swimmer (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.7/#tree)

יָגַ֤עְתִּי ׀ בְּֽאַנְחָתִ֗י אַשְׂחֶ֣ה בְכָל־לַ֭יְלָה מִטָּתִ֑י בְּ֝דִמְעָתִ֗י עַרְשִׂ֥י אַמְסֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* I.have.become.weary by groaning my I.make.swim in every night bed my with tear\[s\] my couch my I.melt

*JPS 1917:* I am weary with my groaning; every night make I my bed to swim; I melt away my couch with my tears.

[Isaiah 25:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.11/#tree)

וּפֵרַ֤שׂ יָדָיו֙ בְּקִרְבּ֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר יְפָרֵ֥שׂ הַשֹּׂחֶ֖ה לִשְׂח֑וֹת וְהִשְׁפִּיל֙ גַּֽאֲוָת֔וֹ עִ֖ם אָרְבּ֥וֹת יָדָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.spread.out hands its in midst its just as he.spreads.\[them\].out (the) swimmer to swim and he.will.bring.low haughtiness its with the.tricks its.hands his

*JPS 1917:* And when he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim, his pride shall be brought down together with the cunning of his hands.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7811.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7811/): 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).