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# שֵׂכוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7906

**Sechu** — 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

Sechu [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7906/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׂ֫כוּ: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7906/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (si vera l.) near Ramah (= outlook, Köii. 1, 61);—1 S 19:22; WMMAs. u. Eur. 165 cp. T̲-ku in Egyptian inscr.; but 𝔊 Σεφ(ε)ι; read שְׁפִי Th We Dr Kit Bu HPS.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Secu (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 19:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.22/#tree)

וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ גַּם־ה֜וּא הָרָמָ֗תָה וַיָּבֹא֙ עַד־בּ֤וֹר הַגָּדוֹל֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּשֶּׂ֔כוּ וַיִּשְׁאַ֣ל וַיֹּ֔אמֶר אֵיפֹ֥ה שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל וְדָוִ֑ד וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֖ה בְּנָי֥וֹת בָּרָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.went also he to (the) Ramah and he.came to a.cistern (the) great which \[is\].in (the) Secu and he.asked and he.said where? \[are\].Samuel and David and someone.said there! at Naioth in (the) Ramah

*JPS 1917:* Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great cistern that is in Secu; and he asked and said: 'Where are Samuel and David?' And one said: 'Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7906.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7906/): 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).