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# שִׁיחוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7883

**Shihor** — 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

Shihor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7883/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁיחוֹר: n.pr.flum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7883/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.flum. on border of Egypt, prob. E. branch of Nile;—הַשּׁ׳ Jos 13:3, שׁ׳ מִצְרַיִם 1 Ch 13:5; clearly = Nile, זֶרַע שִׁחֹר Is 23:3 (‖ קְצִיר יְאוֹר), מֵי שִׁחוֹר Je 2:18; cf. DlPa 311 WilsonHast. DB Shihor (usually derived from I. שׁחר, as black water, but doubtful).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: Shihor (2); of Shihor (1); of \[the\] Shihor (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 23:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.3/#tree)

וּבְמַ֤יִם רַבִּים֙ זֶ֣רַע שִׁחֹ֔ר קְצִ֥יר יְא֖וֹר תְּבֽוּאָתָ֑הּ וַתְּהִ֖י סְחַ֥ר גּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] on waters many the.seed of.Shihor the.harvest of.the.River revenue \[was\].her and it.became \[the\].trading.profit of.nations

*JPS 1917:* And on great waters the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations.

[Jeremiah 2:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.18/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֗ה מַה־לָּךְ֙ לְדֶ֣רֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לִשְׁתּ֖וֹת מֵ֣י שִׁח֑וֹר וּמַה־לָּךְ֙ לְדֶ֣רֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר לִשְׁתּ֖וֹת מֵ֥י נָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and therefore what? \[is\].to you to the.journey of.Egypt to drink the.water of.\[the\].Shihor and what? \[is\].to you to the.journey of.Assyria to drink the.water of.\[the\].River

*JPS 1917:* And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? Or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7883.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7883/): 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).