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# שַׁרְבִיט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8275

**sceptre** — used 4 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

sceptre [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8275/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁרְבִֿיט: n.m. sceptre [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8275/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. sceptre (expanded from foreg., Ges§ 85 w);—only Est: abs. הַשּׁ׳ 5:2; cstr. שׁ׳ הַוָּהָב 4:11; 5:2; שַׁרְבִט הַוּ׳ 8:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword without dagesh, 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: the scepter (4).

## In the verses

[Esther 8:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.4/#tree)

וַיּ֤וֹשֶׁט הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ לְאֶסְתֵּ֔ר אֵ֖ת שַׁרְבִ֣ט הַזָּהָ֑ב וַתָּ֣קָם אֶסְתֵּ֔ר וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד לִפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.held.out the king to Esther (et) the.scepter of.(the) gold and she.arose Esther and she.stood before the king

*JPS 1917:* Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.

[Esther 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.2/#tree)

וַיְהִי֩ כִרְא֨וֹת הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ אֶת־אֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֗ה עֹמֶ֙דֶת֙ בֶּֽחָצֵ֔ר נָשְׂאָ֥ה חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינָ֑יו וַיּ֨וֹשֶׁט הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לְאֶסְתֵּ֗ר אֶת־שַׁרְבִ֤יט הַזָּהָב֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּיָד֔וֹ וַתִּקְרַ֣ב אֶסְתֵּ֔ר וַתִּגַּ֖ע בְּרֹ֥אשׁ הַשַּׁרְבִֽיט׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.was just as.saw the king (et) Esther the queen standing in the court she.bore favor in eyes his and he.held.out the king to Esther (et) the.scepter of.(the) gold which \[was\].in hand his and she.drew.near Esther and she.touched (in).the top of the.scepter

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8275.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8275/): 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).