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# שִׁטָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7848

**acacia** — used 28 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

acacia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7848/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁטָּה: n.f. acacia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7848/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. acacia, tree and wood (= שִׁנְטָה\*, Arabic سَنْطٌ, prob. loan-word from Egyptian šndt, šondet, Thes1452 ErmanZMG xivi (1892), 120);—growing in dry places; especially acacia (mimosa) Nilotica; cf. RobBR ii. 20, or a. seyyâl PostFlora 298 f. Hast. DB Shittah-tree TristrNHB 390 ff.;—שׁ׳ sg. Is 41:19 (to grow in desert); usually pl., עֲצֵי שִׁטִּים shiṭṭîm wood, material of ark, altars, staves, etc., in tabern., Dt 10:3; Ex 25:5, 10, 13 + 19 times Ex 25–38 (P); עֲצֵי om., עַמּוּדֵי שׁ׳ pillars of shiṭṭîm (wood), Ex 26:32, 37; 36:36 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of acacia (27); acacia tree\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 25:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.5/#tree)

וְעֹרֹ֨ת אֵילִ֧ם מְאָדָּמִ֛ים וְעֹרֹ֥ת תְּחָשִׁ֖ים וַעֲצֵ֥י שִׁטִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and hides of.rams dyed.red and skins of.dolphins and wood(s) of.acacia

*JPS 1917:* and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;

[Exodus 25:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.13/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ בַדֵּ֖י עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים וְצִפִּיתָ֥ אֹתָ֖ם זָהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make poles of.wood(s) of.acacia and you.will.overlay them gold

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7848.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7848/): 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).