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# שָׂרֶטֶת

Biblical Hebrew

**incision** — 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

incision [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e8_5b6_5d8_5b6_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂרֶ֫טֶת: n.f. Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e8_5b6_5d8_5b6_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id. (Ba§ 93 α β);—שָׂרָ֑טֶת Lv 21:5, v. vb. Qal.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: cut\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 21:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.5/#tree)

לֹֽא־יִקְרְח֤וּ קָרְחָה֙ בְּרֹאשָׁ֔ם וּפְאַ֥ת זְקָנָ֖ם לֹ֣א יְגַלֵּ֑חוּ וּבִ֨בְשָׂרָ֔ם לֹ֥א יִשְׂרְט֖וּ שָׂרָֽטֶת׃

*Word for word:* not they.will.make.bald baldness on head their and the.side their.beard their not they.will.shave and in flesh their not they.will.cut cut\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e8_5b6_5d8_5b6_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e8_5b6_5d8_5b6_5ea/): 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).