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# שֵׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8357

**seat** — 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

seat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8357/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁת⁴: seat buttocks [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8357/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] seat (of body), buttocks (cf. NH שִׁיה, Aramaic ܫܰܬ foundation; cf. \[שָׁת\] p. 1011; NöM 98);—abs. שׁ׳ Is 20:4; pl. sf. שְׁתוֹתֵיהֶם 2 S 10:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 11:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.11.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.11.3/#tree)

כִּ֣י הַ֭שָּׁתוֹת יֵֽהָרֵס֑וּן צַ֝דִּ֗יק מַה־פָּעָֽל׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the foundations they will.be.torn.down \[the\].righteous what? does.he.do

*JPS 1917:* When the foundations are destroyed, what hath the righteous wrought?

[Isaiah 20:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.4/#tree)

כֵּ֣ן יִנְהַ֣ג מֶֽלֶךְ־אַ֠שּׁוּר אֶת־שְׁבִ֨י מִצְרַ֜יִם וְאֶת־גָּל֥וּת כּ֛וּשׁ נְעָרִ֥ים וּזְקֵנִ֖ים עָר֣וֹם וְיָחֵ֑ף וַחֲשׂוּפַ֥י שֵׁ֖ת עֶרְוַ֥ת מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* so he.will.lead.away the.king of.Assyria (et) the.captive\[s\] of.Egypt and (et) the.exile\[s\] of.Cush young.men and old.\[men\] naked and barefoot and bared of.buttock the.nakedness of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8357.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8357/): 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).