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# שָׁכֵחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7913

**forgetting** — used 2 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

forgetting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7913/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁכֵחַ: adj. forgetting, forgetful [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7913/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. forgetting, forgetful;—pl. הַשְּׁכֵחִים אֶת־הַר ק׳ Is 65:11 they who forget the mt. of my holiness (‖ עֹזְבֵי י׳); cstr. שְׁכֵחֵי א׳ ψ 9:18 all nations forgetful of God (cf. שֹׁכְחֵי pt., Jb 8:13 ψ 50:22).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 9:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.18/#tree)

יָשׁ֣וּבוּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים לִשְׁא֑וֹלָה כָּל־גּ֝וֹיִ֗ם שְׁכֵחֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* they.will.return wicked.\[people\] to Saul Sheol all \[the\].nations forgetful of.God

*JPS 1917:* The wicked shall return to the nether-world, even all the nations that forget God.

[Isaiah 65:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.11/#tree)

וְאַתֶּם֙ עֹזְבֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה הַשְּׁכֵחִ֖ים אֶת־הַ֣ר קָדְשִׁ֑י הַֽעֹרְכִ֤ים לַגַּד֙ שֻׁלְחָ֔ן וְהַֽמְמַלְאִ֖ים לַמְנִ֥י מִמְסָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and you \[who\].forsake (of).Yahweh (the) forgetting (et) the.mountain my.holiness my \[who\] arrange for (the) Gad a.table and \[who\] fill for (the) Meni mixed.wine

*JPS 1917:* But ye that forsake the LORD, that forget My holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and that offer mingled wine in full measure unto Destiny,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7913.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7913/): 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).