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# שִׁטִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7851

**Shittim** — used 5 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

Shittim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7851/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁטִּים: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7851/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. always הַשּׁ׳; usually Σαττειν: E. of Jordan, Jos 2:1; 3:1 (E), Mi 6:5; Nu 25:1 (P); = אָבֵל הַשּׁ׳ 33:49; on exact site v. BuhlG 116 Gray Nu 25:1. נַחַל הַשּׁ׳ Jo 4:18 (perhaps Wady es-Sanṭ, W. of Jerus., cf. We BuhlGeogr. 90, and views in Dr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Shittim (5).

## In the verses

[Numbers 25:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.1/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּשִּׁטִּ֑ים וַיָּ֣חֶל הָעָ֔ם לִזְנ֖וֹת אֶל־בְּנ֥וֹת מוֹאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and it.remained Israel in (the) Shittim and it.began the people to commit.fornication into the.daughters of.Moab

*JPS 1917:* And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab.

[Joshua 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.3.1/#tree)

וַיַּשְׁכֵּם֩ יְהוֹשֻׁ֨עַ בַּבֹּ֜קֶר וַיִּסְע֣וּ מֵֽהַשִּׁטִּ֗ים וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ עַד־הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן ה֖וּא וְכָל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיָּלִ֥נוּ שָׁ֖ם טֶ֥רֶם יַעֲבֹֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.rose.early Joshua in the morning and they.set.out from (the) Shittim and they.came to the Jordan he and all the.people Israel and they.stayed there before they.passed.over

*JPS 1917:* And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7851.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7851/): 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).