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# שְׁכוֹל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7908

**bereavement** — 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

bereavement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7908/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁכוֹל: bereavement, loss of children [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7908/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bereavement, loss of children;—לֹא אֵדַע שׁ׳ Is 47:8 (‖ אַלְמָנָה), cf. v 9; fig. ψ 35:12.

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 (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: childlessness (2); bereavement (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 35:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.12/#tree)

יְשַׁלְּמ֣וּנִי רָ֭עָה תַּ֥חַת טוֹבָ֗ה שְׁכ֣וֹל לְנַפְשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* they repay.me harm in.place.of good bereavement \[belongs\].to self my

*JPS 1917:* They repay me evil for good; bereavement is come to my soul.

[Isaiah 47:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.8/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֞ה שִׁמְעִי־זֹ֤את עֲדִינָה֙ הַיּוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת לָבֶ֔טַח הָאֹֽמְרָה֙ בִּלְבָ֔בָהּ אֲנִ֖י וְאַפְסִ֣י ע֑וֹד לֹ֤א אֵשֵׁב֙ אַלְמָנָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א אֵדַ֖ע שְׁכֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* and therefore listen.to this O.voluptuous.\[woman\] \[who\] dwells to security \[who\] says in heart her I and only I \[am\].yet not I.will.dwell a.widow and not I.will.know childlessness

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart: 'I am, and there is none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children';

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7908/): 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).