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# שָׂרִיד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8300

**survivor** — used 28 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

survivor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8300/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂרִיד: n.m. survivor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8300/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 47:4 survivor (from a defeat, etc.);—abs. שׂ׳ Is 1:9 +; sf. שְׂרִידוֹ Jb 27:15 Kt; pl. שְׂרִידִים Jos 10:20 Jo 3:5; cstr. שְׂרִידֵי Je 31:2; sf. שְׂרִידָיו Ob 14 + Jb 27:15 Qr (van d. H. also Kt);— survivor (often ‖ פָּלִיט): especially עַד בִּלְתִּי הִשְׁאִיר לוֹ שׂ׳ Nu 21:35; Jos 8:22 (both JE), Dt 3:3; Jos 10:33; 11:8; 2 K 10:11 (all D); more simply, לֹא הִשׁ׳ שׂ׳ Dt 2:34; Jos 10:28, 30, 37, 39, 40 (all D); י׳ הוֹתִיר לָנוּ שׂ׳ Is 1:9; לֹא יִהְיֶה שׂ׳ לְ Je 42:17; 44:14 Ob 18; אֵין שׂ׳ Jb 18:19; וְהֶאֱבִיד שׂ׳ מֵעִיר Nu 24:19 (JE); עַם שְׂרִידֵי הָ֑רֶב Je 31:2, pl. also Jos 10:20 (subj. of שָֽׂרְדוּ), Jo 3:5; Ob 14; Jb 27:15 (v. supra); sg. also Ju 5:13 (obscure, for שׂ׳ לְ read perhaps יִשְׂרָאֵל GFM Now cf. Bu), Je 47:4; La 2:22. of things: אֵין שׂ׳ לְאָבְלוֹ Jb 20:21, i.e. nothing has escaped his greed; יֵ֫רַע שׂ׳ בְּאָהֳלוֹ (אֵשׁ) v 26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a survivor (19); survivors (3); \[the\] survivor\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 24:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.19/#tree)

וְיֵ֖רְדְּ מִֽיַּעֲקֹ֑ב וְהֶֽאֱבִ֥יד שָׂרִ֖יד מֵעִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.rule from Jacob and he.will.destroy \[the\].survivor\[s\] of a.city

*JPS 1917:* And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.

[Job 20:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.21/#tree)

אֵין־שָׂרִ֥יד לְאָכְל֑וֹ עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן לֹא־יָחִ֥יל טוּבֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\].not a.survivor he to devour therefore not it.will.endure prosperity his

*JPS 1917:* There was nothing left that he devoured not — therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8300.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8300/): 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).