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# שִׁיחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7882

**pit-fall** — used 2 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

pit-fall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7882/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁיחָה: n.f.id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7882/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.id.;—כרה שׁ׳ Je 18:22 Kt (Qr שׁוּחָה), ψ 57:7; pl. כ׳ שִׁיחוֹת 119:85.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:85](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.85/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.85/#tree)

כָּֽרוּ־לִ֣י זֵדִ֣ים שִׁיח֑וֹת אֲ֝שֶׁ֗ר לֹ֣א כְתוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* they.have.dug for me arrogant.\[people\] pits which not \[are\].according to your.law

*JPS 1917:* The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to Thy law.

[Psalms 57:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.57.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.57.7/#tree)

רֶ֤שֶׁת ׀ הֵכִ֣ינוּ לִפְעָמַי֮ כָּפַ֪ף נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י כָּר֣וּ לְפָנַ֣י שִׁיחָ֑ה נָפְל֖וּ בְתוֹכָ֣הּ סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* a.net they.prepared for feet my it.bowed.down self my they.dug before me a.pit they.have.fallen in the.midst of.it Selah

*JPS 1917:* They have prepared a net for my steps, my soul is bowed down; they have digged a pit before me, they are fallen into the midst thereof themselves.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7882.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7882/): 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).