סְבָךְ
çᵉbâk · H5442 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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thicket
A dense growth of bushes or small trees that look intertwined, sometimes serving as a hiding place for animals
ExamplesGenesis 22:13 Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in the place of his son.
Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It also sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 10:34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
How it’s used In 3 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 1 groups
- יַעַרforest, thickets, woods 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָקַףto strip off 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
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
- Common Hebrew term for wooded/forested area with dense vegetation; while חֹרֶשׁ typically denotes a larger forest, it overlaps semantically with סְבָךְ in contexts describing dense, tangled vegetation
- יַעַר yaʻar · H3293 · forest, thickets, woods
- Standard Hebrew word for forest or wooded area; יַעַר denotes a broader expanse of trees and vegetation, while סְבָךְ specifically refers to dense undergrowth or tangled thicket within such areas
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landscapes001002004
- The word names a thicket of trees, used of the thicket cut down before the invading Assyrian king (Isaiah 10:34) and Egypt's dense forests (Jeremiah 4:7), tying the word to this dense vegetated 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 H5442. sebak סְבַךְ noun [masculine] thicket; — absolute בַּסְּבַךְ (נֶאֱחַז) Gen 22:13…
סְבַךְ noun [masculine] thicket; — absolute בַּסְּבַךְ (נֶאֱחַז) Gen 22:13 (so Ginsb; Baer בַּסֲבַךְ, van d. H. כַּסְּבָךְ) a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; plural construct הַיַּעַר ִסבְכֵי Isa 9:17 thickets of the forest, Isa 10:34.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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
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