סֹבֶךְ
çôbek · H5441 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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thicket
A dense growth of bushes or small trees that look intertwined, sometimes functioning as a hiding place for animals
ExamplesPsalm 74:5 It seems like one bringing up His axe into a forest of trees.
Jeremiah 4:7 “A lion has gone up from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations has set out; He has gone out from his place To make your land a waste. Your cities will be ruins, Without an inhabitant.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עֵץtree, wood 1
- הוּhis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 2
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- חֹרֶשׁ chôresh · H2793 · wood, forest
- Both refer to densely wooded areas with tangled vegetation; חֹרֶשׁ is more commonly used and can range from forest to thicket, while סֹבֶךְ emphasizes the entangled, impenetrable quality
- יַעַר yaʻar · H3293 · forest, thickets, woods
- Both denote areas of dense vegetation; יַעַר is the most common term for forest or wooded area, while סֹבֶךְ specifically emphasizes the tangled, thick undergrowth aspect
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landscapes001002004
- The word names a thicket, the tangled undergrowth in which a ram is caught by its horns and offered in Isaac's place (Genesis 22:13), tying the word to this dense natural landscape feature.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5441. sebok [סְבֹךְ] noun [masculine] id.; — construct ִבּסֲבָךְעֵֿץ Psa 74:5 in the…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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