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# שַׁחַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7834

**dust** — used 21 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

dust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7834/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁ֫חַק: n.m. dust, cloud [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7834/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 3:20 dust, cloud (as fine, thin);—שׁ׳ abs. ψ 89:7, 38, cstr. Is 40:15; pl. שְׁחָקִים Dt 33:26 +;— fine dust, שׁ׳ מֹאזְנַיִם Is 40:15 (sim. of insignif.). (thin) cloud, usually pl. (often ‖ שָׁמַיִם), Dt 33:26 (poem), Is 45:8; Je 51:9; Jb 35:5; 36:28; 37:21; 38:37 ψ 36:6; 57:11; 68:35; 77:18; 78:23; 108:5; opp. תְּהוֹם Pr 3:20; 8:28; עָבֵי שׁ׳ 2 S 22:12 = ψ 18:12; = heavens, sky Jb 37:18 (c. הִרְקִיעַ), and (sg.) ψ 89:7, 38.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] clouds (8); clouds (8); cloud\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Job 36:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.28/#tree)

אֲשֶֽׁר־יִזְּל֥וּ שְׁחָקִ֑ים יִ֝רְעֲפ֗וּ עֲלֵ֤י ׀ אָדָ֬ם רָֽב׃

*Word for word:* which they.flow \[the\].clouds they.drip on humankind numerous

*JPS 1917:* Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men.

[Job 37:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.18/#tree)

תַּרְקִ֣יעַ עִ֭מּוֹ לִשְׁחָקִ֑ים חֲ֝זָקִ֗ים כִּרְאִ֥י מוּצָֽק׃

*Word for word:* will.you.beat.out? with him (to) clouds hard like a.mirror molten

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou with Him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7834/): 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).