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# שֹׂרֵק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7796

**Sorek** — 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

Sorek [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7796/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֹׂרֵק²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7796/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (van d. H. שׂוֹ׳) n.pr.loc. in נַ֫חַל שׂ׳ Ju 16:4 (proposes Wady of choice vines);—𝔊 Σωρηχ\[κ\]; prob. Wady Ṣurâr (GASmGeogr. 218 ff.), on N. side of which is ruin Sûrîk, 3/4 h. W. of Ṣur‘ah (Ẓor‘ah), Surveyiii. 53 GFMad loc.

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 (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Sorek (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 16:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.4/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ אַחֲרֵי־כֵ֔ן וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב אִשָּׁ֖ה בְּנַ֣חַל שֹׂרֵ֑ק וּשְׁמָ֖הּ דְּלִילָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was after thus and he.loved a.woman in the.valley of.Sorek and name her \[was\].Delilah

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7796.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7796/): 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).