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# שְׁנִינָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8148

**sharp** — used 4 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

sharp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8148/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁנִינָה: n.f. sharp (cutting) word, taunt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8148/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sharp (cutting) word, taunt;—Dt 28:37; 1 K 9:7 = 2 Ch 7:20, Je 24:9 (cf. ψ 64:4; 140:4).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 28:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.37/#tree)

וְהָיִ֣יתָ לְשַׁמָּ֔ה לְמָשָׁ֖ל וְלִשְׁנִינָ֑ה בְּכֹל֙ הָֽעַמִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁר־יְנַהֶגְךָ֥ יְהוָ֖ה שָֽׁמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.become (into).a horror (into).a byword and.(into) a taunt among all the peoples where he will.drive.you.away Yahweh to (to)

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither the LORD shall lead thee away.

[Jeremiah 24:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.24.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.24.9/#tree)

וּנְתַתִּים֙ לְזַעֲוָ֣ה לְרָעָ֔ה לְכֹ֖ל מַמְלְכ֣וֹת הָאָ֑רֶץ לְחֶרְפָּ֤ה וּלְמָשָׁל֙ לִשְׁנִינָ֣ה וְלִקְלָלָ֔ה בְּכָל־הַמְּקֹמ֖וֹת אֲשֶֽׁר־אַדִּיחֵ֥ם שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and I will.make.them into a.terror into an.evil to all the.kingdoms of the.earth into a.reproach and into a.byword into a.taunt and into a.curse in all the places where I will.banish.them there

*JPS 1917:* I will even make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8148/): 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).