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# שֶׂרֶט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8296

**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/1513/8296/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׂ֫רֶט: incision [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8296/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] incision;—abs. וְשׂ׳ לָנֶפֶשׁ לֹא תִתְּנוּ בִּבְשַׂרְכֶם Lv 19:28.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 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 19:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.28/#tree)

וְשֶׂ֣רֶט לָנֶ֗פֶשׁ לֹ֤א תִתְּנוּ֙ בִּבְשַׂרְכֶ֔ם וּכְתֹ֣בֶת קַֽעֲקַ֔ע לֹ֥א תִתְּנ֖וּ בָּכֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and cut\[s\] for a.corpse not you.will.make in flesh your and.\[the\] inscription of.an.incision not you.will.make in yourselves I \[am\].Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor imprint any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8296.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8296/): 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).