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# שָׂרִיג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8299

**tendril** — 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

tendril [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8299/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂרִיג: n.m. tendril twig [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8299/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 40:10 tendril twig (from interlacing; cf. Arabic شَرِيجَةٌ palm-leaf braid, etc.; Ethiopic መሥገርት net (PräBAS i. 371); Aramaic סְרִיגָא, ܣܪܺܝܓܬܳܐ network, lattice);—of vine, pl. שָׂרִיגִם Gn 40:10, שָׂרִגִים v 12; of fig-tree, sf. שָׂרִיגֶיהָ Jo 1:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: branches (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 40:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.12/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ יוֹסֵ֔ף זֶ֖ה פִּתְרֹנ֑וֹ שְׁלֹ֙שֶׁת֙ הַשָּׂ֣רִגִ֔ים שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים הֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to him Joseph this interpretation \[is\].its the.three the branches \[are\].three days they

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph said unto him: 'This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;

[Genesis 40:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.10/#tree)

וּבַגֶּ֖פֶן שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה שָׂרִיגִ֑ם וְהִ֤יא כְפֹרַ֙חַת֙ עָלְתָ֣ה נִצָּ֔הּ הִבְשִׁ֥ילוּ אַשְׁכְּלֹתֶ֖יהָ עֲנָבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the vine three branches and it just as.\[it.was\].budding it.went.up blossom its they.ripened clusters its grapes

*JPS 1917:* and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8299.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8299/): 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).