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# שִׂיד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7875

**lime** — used 4 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

lime [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7875/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂיד: lime, whitewash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7875/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] lime, whitewash;—always שׂ׳;—lime, produced by burning bones Am 2:1, in sim. Is 33:12; as whitewash Dt 27:2, 4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lime (3); of lime (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 33:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.12/#tree)

וְהָי֥וּ עַמִּ֖ים מִשְׂרְפ֣וֹת שִׂ֑יד קוֹצִ֥ים כְּסוּחִ֖ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יִצַּֽתּוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.will.be peoples burnings of.lime thorns cut.down with (the) fire they.will.be.kindled

*JPS 1917:* And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

[Amos 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.1/#tree)

כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה עַל־שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ פִּשְׁעֵ֣י מוֹאָ֔ב וְעַל־אַרְבָּעָ֖ה לֹ֣א אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ עַל־שָׂרְפ֛וֹ עַצְמ֥וֹת מֶֽלֶךְ־אֱד֖וֹם לַשִּֽׂיד׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Yahweh on three (the).transgressions of.Moab and on four not I will.revoke.it because burned he the.bones of.the.king of.Edom into (the) lime

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7875.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7875/): 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).