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# שִׁקּוּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8250

**drink** — 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

drink [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8250/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁקּוּי: drink Pu. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8250/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] drink (Ba§ 102 d);—שׁ׳ לְעַצְמוֹתֶיךָ Pr 3:8 drink (fig. for refreshment) to thy bones (cf. vb. Pu.); pl. sf. שִׁקֻּוַי (Ol§ 186 b) ψ 102:10 (+ לֶחֶם v a), שִׁקּיָ֑י Ho 2:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 3:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.8/#tree)

רִ֭פְאוּת תְּהִ֣י לְשָׁרֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝שִׁקּ֗וּי לְעַצְמוֹתֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* healing may.it.be to navel your and refreshment to bones your

*JPS 1917:* It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

[Psalms 102:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.10/#tree)

כִּי־אֵ֭פֶר כַּלֶּ֣חֶם אָכָ֑לְתִּי וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י בִּבְכִ֥י מָסָֽכְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) ash\[es\] like (the) food I.have.eaten and drinks my with weeping I.have.mixed

*JPS 1917:* For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8250.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8250/): 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).