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# שַׁכּוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7909

**bereaved** — used 6 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

bereaved [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7909/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁכּוּל: adj. bereaved, robbed of offspring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7909/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. bereaved, robbed of offspring (Ba § 37 c);—especially דֹּב שׁ׳ 2 S 17:8; Ho 13:8; Pr 17:12 (sim. of fierceness); נְשֵׁיהֶם שַׁכֻּלוֹת Je 18:21; שַׁבֻּלָה אֵין בָּהֶם Ct 4:2 (of flock, in sim.) = 6:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: robbed of cubs (3); deprived of offspring (2); childless (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 17:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.12/#tree)

פָּג֬וֹשׁ דֹּ֣ב שַׁכּ֣וּל בְּאִ֑ישׁ וְאַל־כְּ֝סִ֗יל בְּאִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* let.it.meet a.bear robbed.of.cubs (in).a person and not a.fool in foolishness his

*JPS 1917:* Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

[Song of Songs 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.2/#tree)

שִׁנַּ֙יִךְ֙ כְּעֵ֣דֶר הַקְּצוּב֔וֹת שֶׁעָל֖וּ מִן־הָרַחְצָ֑ה שֶׁכֻּלָּם֙ מַתְאִימ֔וֹת וְשַׁכֻּלָ֖ה אֵ֥ין בָּהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* teeth your \[are\].like.(the) flock of.(the) shorn.\[ewes\] which they.have.come.up from the washing which all of.them \[are\].bearing.twins and.\[one\] deprived.of.offspring there.\[is\].not among them

*JPS 1917:* Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes all shaped alike, which are come up from the washing; whereof all are paired, and none faileth among them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7909.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7909/): 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).