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# שָׁעַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8176

**calculate** — 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

calculate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8176/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁעַר: vb. calculate, reckon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8176/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. calculate, reckon (NH Pi. J.Aram Pa. put a valuation on, estimate; J.Aram; שַׁעֲרָא interest, market-price; Arabic سِعْرٌ market-price is loan-word Frä189);— Pf. 3 ms. כְּמוֹ־שׁ׳ בְּנַפְשׁוֹ כֶּן־הוּא Pr 23:7 as he has calculated in his soul, so is he, but dub.: De שֹׁעֵר as one who calculates; more radical conj. in Bi Toy.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (20 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (16 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he calculates (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 23:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.7/#tree)

כִּ֤י ׀ כְּמוֹ־שָׁעַ֥ר בְּנַפְשׁ֗וֹ כֶּ֫ן־ה֥וּא אֱכֹ֣ל וּ֭שְׁתֵה יֹ֣אמַר לָ֑ךְ וְ֝לִבּ֗וֹ בַּל־עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) as he.calculates in self his \[is\].so he eat and drink he.says to you and heart his not \[is\].with you

*JPS 1917:* For as one that hath reckoned within himself, so is he: 'Eat and drink', saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8176.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8176/): 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).