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# שָׁסַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8158

**hew in pieces** — 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

hew in pieces [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8158/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁסַף: vb. hew in pieces [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8158/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dub.: hew in pieces (Vrss and context);—Impf. 3 ms. וַיְשַׁסֵּף 1 S 15:33, acc. pers.;—Gr Dr HPS qy. וַיְשַׁסַּע, but improb.

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, 2 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: he cut to pieces (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 15:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.33/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר שִׁכְּלָ֤ה נָשִׁים֙ חַרְבֶּ֔ךָ כֵּן־תִּשְׁכַּ֥ל מִנָּשִׁ֖ים אִמֶּ֑ךָ וַיְשַׁסֵּ֨ף שְׁמוּאֵ֧ל אֶת־אֲגָ֛ג לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה בַּגִּלְגָּֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.said Samuel just as it.has.made.childless women sword your so she.will.become.childless from women mother your and he.cut.to.pieces Samuel (et) Agag before Yahweh in (the) Gilgal

*JPS 1917:* And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8158.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8158/): 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).