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# שֶׂכְוִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7907

**appearance** — 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

appearance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7907/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׂכְוִי: appearance, phenomenon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7907/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] perhaps a celestial appearance, phenomenon (Rabb. Thes mind; De(afterTalm.) cock (cf. NH שֶׂכְוִי cock, שֶׂכְוְיָה hen, foreign words acc. Dalm), Di ‘Wolkengebilde’);—abs. שׂ׳ perhaps of clouds (cf. ‖ טֻחוֹת) Jb 38:36 (RVm meteor).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 38:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.36/#tree)

מִי־שָׁ֭ת בַּטֻּח֣וֹת חָכְמָ֑ה א֤וֹ מִֽי־נָתַ֖ן לַשֶּׂ֣כְוִי בִינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* who? has.he.put in the.inner parts wisdom or who? has.he.given to the heart understanding

*JPS 1917:* Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7907/): 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).