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# שָׁחַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7833

**rub away** — used 4 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

rub away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7833/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁחַק: vb. rub away, beat fine, pulverize Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7833/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. rub away, beat fine, pulverize (so Arabic سَحَقَ, سَحْقٌ worn garment, thin clouds; Aramaic שְׁחַק, ܫܚܰܩ pulverize; Ecclus שחק 6:36 is go often (wear by treading), Str cp. iter terere);— Pf. 3 pl. אֲבָנִים שָֽׁחֲקוּ מַיִם Jb 14:19 waters rub away stones; 2 ms. וְשָׁחַקְתָּ֫ Ex 30:36 (P; of pulverizing incense, v. דקק Hiph.); fig., acc. of foes, Impf. 1 s. sf. וְאֶשְׁחָקֵם 2 S 22:43 (‖ דקק) = ψ 18:43.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 4 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I (2); they rub away (1); you will beat fine (1).

## In the verses

[Job 14:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.19/#tree)

אֲבָנִ֤ים ׀ שָׁ֥חֲקוּ מַ֗יִם תִּשְׁטֹֽף־סְפִיחֶ֥יהָ עֲפַר־אָ֑רֶץ וְתִקְוַ֖ת אֱנ֣וֹשׁ הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ׃

*Word for word:* stones they.rub.away waters it.washes.off overflowings its \[the\].dust of.\[the\].earth and.\[the\] hope of.humankind you.destroy

*JPS 1917:* The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.

[2 Samuel 22:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.43/#tree)

וְאֶשְׁחָקֵ֖ם כַּעֲפַר־אָ֑רֶץ כְּטִיט־חוּצ֥וֹת אֲדִקֵּ֖ם אֶרְקָעֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I beat.them.fine like.\[the\] dust of.\[the\].earth like.\[the\] mud of.\[the\].streets I pulverized.them I beat.them.out

*JPS 1917:* Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the streets, and did tread them down.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7833.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7833/): 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).