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# שִׂיחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7881

**reflection** — used 3 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

reflection [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7881/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂיחָה: n.f. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7881/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—abs. שׂ׳ ψ 119:99 Jb 15:4; sf. שִׂיחָתִי ψ 119:97;— complaint: שׂ׳ לִפְנֵי־אֵל Jb 15:4; (so Bu al., cf. שִׂיחַ 1 De al. meditation, cf. \[גָּרַע\]). (obj. of) musing, study: תּוֹרָה ψ 119:97; עֵדוּת v 99.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: meditation (2); \[are\] a meditation (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.4/#tree)

אַף־אַ֭תָּה תָּפֵ֣ר יִרְאָ֑ה וְתִגְרַ֥ע שִׂ֝יחָ֗ה לִפְנֵי־אֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* also you you.annul fear and you.diminish meditation before God

*JPS 1917:* Yea, thou doest away with fear, and impairest devotion before God.

[Psalms 119:97](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.97/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.97/#tree)

מָֽה־אָהַ֥בְתִּי תוֹרָתֶ֑ךָ כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם הִ֣יא שִׂיחָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* how! I.love law your all the day it meditation \[is\].my

*JPS 1917:* O how love I Thy law! It is my meditation all the day.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7881/): 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).