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# שֹׁעַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8168

**hollow hand** — used 3 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

hollow hand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8168/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֹׁ֫עַל: hollow hand, handful [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8168/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hollow hand, handful;— hollow hand: sf. בְּשָׁעֳלוֹ Is 40:12 (fig. of י׳ holding waters). handful: pl. שְׁעָלִים 1 K 20:10 (dust, in hyperb.); cstr. שַׁעֲלֵי שְׂעֹרִים (as if from \[שַׁ֫עַל\] Kö ii. 1. 35) Ez 13:19 handfuls of barley.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: handfuls (2); the hollow (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 40:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.12/#tree)

מִֽי־מָדַ֨ד בְּשָׁעֳל֜וֹ מַ֗יִם וְשָׁמַ֙יִם֙ בַּזֶּ֣רֶת תִּכֵּ֔ן וְכָ֥ל בַּשָּׁלִ֖שׁ עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֑רֶץ וְשָׁקַ֤ל בַּפֶּ֙לֶס֙ הָרִ֔ים וּגְבָע֖וֹת בְּמֹאזְנָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* who? has.he.measured in the.hollow of.his.hand \[the\].waters and.\[the\] heavens with (the) span has.he.marked.off? and has.he.contained? in.(the) third of.a.measure the.dust of the.earth and has.he.weighed? with (the) scale\[s\] mountains and hills with balances

*JPS 1917:* Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

[1 Kings 20:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.10/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח אֵלָיו֙ בֶּנ־הֲדַ֔דבֶּנ־הֲדַ֔ד וַיֹּ֕אמֶר כֹּֽה־יַעֲשׂ֥וּן לִ֛י אֱלֹהִ֖ים וְכֹ֣ה יוֹסִ֑פוּ אִם־יִשְׂפֹּק֙ עֲפַ֣ר שֹׁמְר֔וֹן לִשְׁעָלִ֕ים לְכָל־הָעָ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר בְּרַגְלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent to him Ben Hadad and he.said thus may they.do to me \[the\].gods and thus may.they.add if it.will.suffice the.dust of.Samaria for handfuls for all the people which \[is\].at feet my

*JPS 1917:* And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said: 'The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8168.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8168/): 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).