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# שְׂרוֹךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8288

**thong** — 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

thong [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8288/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂרוֹךְ: thong [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8288/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] (sandal-)thong (? from above √, as crossed and twisted over the foot; on vocalization cf. Arabic supra, Ges§ 84 a n BaNB § 42 e);—cstr., שְׂ׳־נַעַל Gn 14:23; Is 5:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a thong (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 14:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.23/#tree)

אִם־מִחוּט֙ וְעַ֣ד שְׂרֽוֹךְ־נַ֔עַל וְאִם־אֶקַּ֖ח מִכָּל־אֲשֶׁר־לָ֑ךְ וְלֹ֣א תֹאמַ֔ר אֲנִ֖י הֶעֱשַׁ֥רְתִּי אֶת־אַבְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* if from a.thread and unto a.thong of.a.sandal and if I.will.take any of.all that \[belongs\].to you and not you.will.say I I.made.rich (et) Abram

*JPS 1917:* that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich;

[Isaiah 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.27/#tree)

אֵין־עָיֵ֤ף וְאֵין־כּוֹשֵׁל֙ בּ֔וֹ לֹ֥א יָנ֖וּם וְלֹ֣א יִישָׁ֑ן וְלֹ֤א נִפְתַּח֙ אֵז֣וֹר חֲלָצָ֔יו וְלֹ֥א נִתַּ֖ק שְׂר֥וֹךְ נְעָלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\].not a.weary.\[one\] and there.\[is\].not \[one.who\].stumbles among it not anyone.will.slumber and not anyone.will.sleep and not it.has.been.opened the.loincloth its.loins his and not it.has.been.torn.apart a.thong its.sandals his

*JPS 1917:* None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8288/): 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).