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# שָׁתַן

Biblical Hebrew

**urinate** — used 6 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

urinate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5ea_5b7_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁתַן: vb. urinate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5ea_5b7_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. urinate (secondary √ from above);—Pt. מַשְׁתִּין בְּקִיר (i.e. a male person) 1 S 25:22, 34; 1 K 14:10; 16:11; 21:21; 2 K 9:8 (all of exterminating a family).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] urinates (6).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 9:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.8/#tree)

וְאָבַ֖ד כָּל־בֵּ֣ית אַחְאָ֑ב וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י לְאַחְאָב֙ מַשְׁתִּ֣ין בְּקִ֔יר וְעָצ֥וּר וְעָז֖וּב בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.perish all the.house of.Ahab and I.will.cut.off to Ahab \[one.who\].urinates on a.wall and shut.up and freed in Israel

*JPS 1917:* For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.

[1 Samuel 25:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.22/#tree)

כֹּה־יַעֲשֶׂ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים לְאֹיְבֵ֥י דָוִ֖ד וְכֹ֣ה יֹסִ֑יף אִם־אַשְׁאִ֧יר מִכָּל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֛וֹ עַד־הַבֹּ֖קֶר מַשְׁתִּ֥ין בְּקִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* thus may.he.do God to the.enemies David and thus may.he.add if I.will.leave from all that \[belongs\].to him until the morning \[one.who\].urinates on a.wall

*JPS 1917:* God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one male.' —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5ea_5b7_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5ea_5b7_5df/): 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).