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# שָׂטָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7847

**turn aside** — used 6 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

turn aside [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7847/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂטה: vb. turn aside [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7847/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. turn aside (Aramaic סְטָא, ܣܛܳܐ id.; שְׂטָא stray; Ethiopic ሠጠየ iii. 1 be seduced, etc.; cf. DrJPhil. xi (1882), 205);— Pf. 2 fs. שָׂטִית Nu 5:19, 20; Impf. 3 fs. תִּשְׂטֶה v 12, 29, juss. 3 ms. יֵשְׂטְ Pr 7:25; Imv. ms. שְׂטֵה 4:15;—turn aside, of unfaithful wife Nu 5:12 (abs.), + תַּחַת אִישׁ, i.e. while married, v 19 (+ טֻמְאָה adv. acc.), v 20, 29 (all P); of youth, from (מֵעַל) way of evil woman Pr 4:15, toward (אֶל) her ways 7:25.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: she will turn aside (2); you have turned aside (2); let it turn aside (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 5:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.5.29/#tree)

זֹ֥את תּוֹרַ֖ת הַקְּנָאֹ֑ת אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּשְׂטֶ֥ה אִשָּׁ֛ה תַּ֥חַת אִישָׁ֖הּ וְנִטְמָֽאָה׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the.law of.(the) jealousi(es) that she.will.turn.aside a.wife under husband her and she.will.make.herself.unclean

*JPS 1917:* This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;

[Proverbs 4:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.15/#tree)

פְּרָעֵ֥הוּ אַל־תַּעֲבָר־בּ֑וֹ שְׂטֵ֖ה מֵעָלָ֣יו וַעֲבֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* avoid it do.not pass.along on it turn.aside from on it and pass.on

*JPS 1917:* Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7847.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7847/): 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).