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# שָׁעַע

Biblical Hebrew

**sport** — used 6 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

sport [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e2_5b7_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁעַע²: vb. Pilp. sport, take delight in, delight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e2_5b7_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Pilp., etc., sport, take delight in, delight (usually made = I. שׁ׳ smooth over, please; Buhl cp. Aramaic ܫܥܳܐ, Ithpe. sport, trifle, Vulg.Ar. مشعشع (loan-word?) VollersZMG xiv (1891), 86, 1. 3);— Pf. 3 ms. consec. וְשִׁעֲשַׁע Is 11:8 the suckling shall sport on (עַל) the cobra’s hole; 1 s. שִׁעֲשָׁ֑עְתִּי ψ 119:70 I take delight in thy law (acc.; but? read שַׁעֲשֻׁעָ֑י, v 77); Impf. transit. 3 mpl. יְשַׁעַשְׁעוּ ψ 94:19 thy consolations delight my soul (acc.). Impf. 2 mpl. תְּשָֽׁעֳשָׁ֑עוּ Is 66:12 upon (עַל) the knees shall ye be fondled. Impf. 1 s. אֶשְׁתַּעֲשָׁ֑ע ψ 119:16 in (ב) thy statutes will I delight myself, cf. v 47.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I will delight myself (2); I delight (1); he will play (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.47/#tree)

וְאֶשְׁתַּֽעֲשַׁ֥ע בְּמִצְוֺתֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָהָֽבְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.delight.myself in commandments your which I.love

*JPS 1917:* And I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved.

[Psalms 119:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.16/#tree)

בְּחֻקֹּתֶ֥יךָ אֶֽשְׁתַּעֲשָׁ֑ע לֹ֭א אֶשְׁכַּ֣ח דְּבָרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* in statutes your I.will.delight.myself not I.will.forget word your

*JPS 1917:* I will delight myself in Thy statutes; I will not forget Thy word.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e2_5b7_5e2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5e2_5b7_5e2/): 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).