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# שָׂרֹק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8320

**sorrel** — 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

sorrel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8320/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂרֹק: adj. sorrel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8320/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. perhaps sorrel (? from II. שׂ׳, or cf. أَشْقَرُ having ruddy tinge over white, of horses sorrel Lane1681);—pl. אֲדֻמִּים שְׂרֻקִּים וּלְבָנִים Zc 1:8, of horses.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: sorrel (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 1:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.1.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.1.8/#tree)

רָאִ֣יתִי ׀ הַלַּ֗יְלָה וְהִנֵּה־אִישׁ֙ רֹכֵב֙ עַל־ס֣וּס אָדֹ֔ם וְה֣וּא עֹמֵ֔ד בֵּ֥ין הַהֲדַסִּ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּמְּצֻלָ֑ה וְאַחֲרָיו֙ סוּסִ֣ים אֲדֻמִּ֔ים שְׂרֻקִּ֖ים וּלְבָנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I.saw the night and there! a.man \[was\].riding on a.horse red and he \[was\].standing between the.myrtle trees which \[were\].in the hollow and.\[were\] behind him horses red sorrel and white

*JPS 1917:* I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8320.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8320/): 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).