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# שִׂטְנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7855

**accusation** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

accusation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7855/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂטְנָה: n.f. accusation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7855/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. accusation;—Ezr 4:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: an accusation (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.6/#tree)

וּבְמַלְכוּת֙ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת מַלְכוּת֑וֹ כָּתְב֣וּ שִׂטְנָ֔ה עַל־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and in the.reign of.Ahasuerus at the.beginning his.reign his they.wrote an.accusation on the.inhabitants of.Judah and Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7855/): 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).