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# שָׂחוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7813

**swimming** — 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

swimming [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7813/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂ֔חוּ: swimming [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7813/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.Sta § 192 a\] swimming (on format. (and tone) Ges § 84 a c Köii. 1, 60. 497);—מֵי שׂ׳ Ez 47:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 47:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.5/#tree)

וַיָּ֣מָד אֶ֔לֶף נַ֕חַל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־אוּכַ֖ל לַעֲבֹ֑ר כִּֽי־גָא֤וּ הַמַּ֙יִם֙ מֵ֣י שָׂ֔חוּ נַ֖חַל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יֵעָבֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.measured.out a.thousand.\[cubits\] a.river which not I.was.able to pass.through (dm) they.had.risen the waters waters of.swimming a.river which not it.was.passed.through

*JPS 1917:* Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7813.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7813/): 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).