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# שִׂיא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7863

**loftiness** — 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

loftiness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7863/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂיא: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7863/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. loftiness, fig. of pride:—אִם־יַעֲלֶה לַשָּׁמַיִם שִׂיאוֹ Jb 20:6 (of wicked).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: loftiness (1).

## In the verses

[Job 20:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.6/#tree)

אִם־יַעֲלֶ֣ה לַשָּׁמַ֣יִם שִׂיא֑וֹ וְ֝רֹאשׁ֗וֹ לָעָ֥ב יַגִּֽיעַ׃

*Word for word:* though it.will.go.up to the heavens loftiness his and head his to the cloud\[s\] it.will.reach

*JPS 1917:* Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7863.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7863/): 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).