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# שָׁכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7904

**roaming at large** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

roaming at large [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7904/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁכָה: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7904/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Pt. as adj. in סוּסִים מוּזָנִים מַשְׁכִּים הָיוּ Je 5:8 usually, horses … roaming at large they have become (cf. Ethiopic ሰኰየ: );—but meaning lustful needed; Aq Theod ἕλκοντες, Jer trahentes (sc. genitalia), i.e. משְׁכִים; read with Arnheim Du Dr מַאֲשִׁיכִים, i.e. fed stallions (lit. growing אֲשָׁכִים, Lv 21:20; cf. מַקְרִין, מַפְרִיס).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 5:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.8/#tree)

סוּסִ֥ים מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים מַשְׁכִּ֣ים הָי֑וּ אִ֛ישׁ אֶל־אֵ֥שֶׁת רֵעֵ֖הוּ יִצְהָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* horses well.fed lustful they.are everyone to the.wife his.neighbor his they.neigh

*JPS 1917:* They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7904.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7904/): 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).