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# שַׁחַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7830

**dignity** — used 2 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

dignity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7830/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁ֫חַץ: dignity, pride [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7830/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dignity, pride;—בְנֵי־שָׁ֑חַץ i.e. majestic wild beasts Jb 28:8 (‖ שָׁ֑חַל), 41:26.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of pride (2).

## In the verses

[Job 28:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.8/#tree)

לֹֽא־הִדְרִיכֻ֥הוּ בְנֵי־שָׁ֑חַץ לֹֽא־עָדָ֖ה עָלָ֣יו שָֽׁחַל׃

*Word for word:* not they tread.it \[the\].sons of.pride not it.passes.by on it a.lion

*JPS 1917:* The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the lion passed thereby.

[Job 41:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.26/#tree)

אֵֽת־כָּל־גָּבֹ֥הַּ יִרְאֶ֑ה ה֝֗וּא מֶ֣לֶךְ עַל־כָּל־בְּנֵי־שָֽׁחַץ׃ס

*Word for word:* (et) every exalted.\[one\] it.sees it \[is\].king over all \[the\].sons of.pride

*JPS 1917:* He looketh at all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7830.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7830/): 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).