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# שְׂעִפִּים

Biblical Hebrew

**disquietings** — 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

disquietings [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5e2_5b4_5e4_5b4_5bc_5d9_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂעִפִּים: pl. disquietings disquieting or excited thoughts [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5e2_5b4_5e4_5b4_5bc_5d9_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. disquietings, = disquieting or excited thoughts;—שׂ׳ Jb 4:13; sf. שְׂעִפַּי (Baer שְׂעִיפַּי) Jb 20:2 (‖ חוּשִׁי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (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: disquieting thoughts (1); thoughts (1).

## In the verses

[Job 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.13/#tree)

בִּ֭שְׂעִפִּים מֵחֶזְיֹנ֣וֹת לָ֑יְלָה בִּנְפֹ֥ל תַּ֝רְדֵּמָ֗ה עַל־אֲנָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* in disquieting.thoughts from visions of.\[the\].night when falls deep.sleep on people

*JPS 1917:* In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

[Job 20:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.2/#tree)

לָ֭כֵן שְׂעִפַּ֣י יְשִׁיב֑וּנִי וּ֝בַעֲב֗וּר ח֣וּשִׁי בִֽי׃

*Word for word:* therefore thoughts my.disquieting they make.me.respond and because of agitation my in me

*JPS 1917:* Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5e2_5b4_5e4_5b4_5bc_5d9_5dd/): 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).