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# שַׁעֲרוּרִי

Biblical Hebrew

**a.horrible.\[thing\]** — 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

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a horrible \[thing\] (2).

## In the verses

[Hosea 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.10/#tree)

בְּבֵית֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל רָאִ֖יתִי שַׁעֲרֽוּרִיָּ֑ה שָׁ֚ם זְנ֣וּת לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם נִטְמָ֖א יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* in the.house of.Israel I.have.seen a.horrible.\[thing\] there prostitution \[belongs\].to Ephraim it.has.made.itself.unclean Israel

*JPS 1917:* In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

[Jeremiah 18:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.13/#tree)

לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה שַֽׁאֲלוּ־נָא֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם מִ֥י שָׁמַ֖ע כָּאֵ֑לֶּה שַֽׁעֲרֻרִת֙ עָשְׂתָ֣ה מְאֹ֔ד בְּתוּלַ֖ת יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* therefore thus he.says Yahweh ask please among the nations who? has.he.heard like these.\[things\] a.horrible.\[thing\] she.has.done exceedingly the.virgin of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Therefore thus saith the LORD: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e2_5b2_5e8_5d5_5bc_5e8_5b4_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e2_5b2_5e8_5d5_5bc_5e8_5b4_5d9/): 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).