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# שִׁכֻּלִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7923

**bereavement** — 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

bereavement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7923/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁכֻּלִים: pl. abstr. bereavement, childlessness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7923/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pl. abstr. bereavement, childlessness;—בְּנֵי שִׁכֻּלָ֑יִךְ Is 49:20 i.e. sons of thee, the bereaved.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 49:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.20/#tree)

ע֚וֹד יֹאמְר֣וּ בְאָזְנַ֔יִךְ בְּנֵ֖י שִׁכֻּלָ֑יִךְ צַר־לִ֥י הַמָּק֖וֹם גְּשָׁה־לִּ֥י וְאֵשֵֽׁבָה׃

*Word for word:* yet they.will.say in ears your the.children your.bereavement(s) your it.is.cramped for me the place draw near for me so that.I.may.dwell

*JPS 1917:* The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears: 'The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7923.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7923/): 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).