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# שֵׁמֶץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8102

**whisper** — 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

whisper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8102/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁ֫מֶץ: whisper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8102/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] whisper;—שׁ׳ abs. Jb 4:12; cstr. שׁ׳ דָּבָר 26:14 a (mere) whisper of a word, something wholly inadequate.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a whisper (2).

## In the verses

[Job 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.12/#tree)

וְ֭אֵלַי דָּבָ֣ר יְגֻנָּ֑ב וַתִּקַּ֥ח אָ֝זְנִ֗י שֵׁ֣מֶץ מֶֽנְהֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and to me a.word it.was.brought.secretly and it.received ear my a.whisper of it

*JPS 1917:* Now a word was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.

[Job 26:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.14/#tree)

הֶן־אֵ֤לֶּה ׀ קְצ֬וֹת דְּרָכָ֗יו וּמַה־שֵּׁ֣מֶץ דָּ֭בָר נִשְׁמַע־בּ֑וֹ וְרַ֥עַם גְּ֝בוּרוֹתָ֗יומִ֣י יִתְבּוֹנָֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* there! these \[are\].the.ends his.ways his and what! a.whisper of.a.word we.hear in it and the.thunder his.mighty.deeds his who? will.he.understand

*JPS 1917:* Lo, these are but the outskirts of His ways; and how small a whisper is heard of Him! But the thunder of His mighty deeds who can understand?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8102.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8102/): 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).