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# שַׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7862

**gift** — 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

gift [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7862/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁי: n.m. gift [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7862/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. gift offered as homage (√ dub.; perhaps in spite of שׁ = ش Arabic شَيِىَٔ, vb. wish, شَىْءٌ thing (weakened from thing desired); cf. חֵפֶץ 4);—יוּבַל שׁ׳ Is 18:7, יֹבִילוּ שׁ׳ ψ 76:12, יוֹב׳ שָׁ֑י 68:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.30/#tree)

מֵֽ֭הֵיכָלֶךָ עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם לְךָ֤ יוֹבִ֖ילוּ מְלָכִ֣ים שָֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* from temple your at Jerusalem to you they.will.bring kings a.gift

*JPS 1917:* Out of Thy temple at Jerusalem, whither kings shall bring presents unto Thee.

[Psalms 76:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.12/#tree)

נִֽדֲר֣וּ וְשַׁלְּמוּ֮ לַיהוָ֪ה אֱ‍ֽלֹהֵ֫יכֶ֥ם כָּל־סְבִיבָ֑יו יוֹבִ֥ילוּ שַׁ֝֗י לַמּוֹרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* make.vows and pay.\[them\] to Yahweh God your all \[those\].around him let.them.bring a.gift to the fear

*JPS 1917:* Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God; let all that are round about Him bring presents unto Him that is to be feared;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7862.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7862/): 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).