Word

סוּת

çûwth · H5496 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences

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Meanings

to persuade, to urge, to entice, to incite, to stir up

Causative action by which humans or deities put pressure on (other) humans to engage in a certain activity

Examples
Joshua 15:18 And it happened that when she came to him, she incited him to ask her father for a field. So she dismounted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”
Judges 1:14 Then it happened that when she came to him, she incited him to ask her father for a field. Then later, she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”
1 Samuel 26:19 “Now then, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. If the LORD has incited you against me, may He accept an offering; but if it is people, cursed are they before the LORD, because they have driven me out today so that I would have no share in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

18 occurrences in 14 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 9
Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

18 occurrences in 6 groups

ךָּyou 6
וֹhim 4
כֶםyou 4
דָּוִדDavid 2
נִיme 1
הֶםthem 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

16 occurrences in 15 groups

לto/for+ אָמַרto say 5
Other words · 14 groups that occur once or twice (15) 15

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לֹאnot 1
אַלnot, do not 1

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 1 word

פָּצַר pâtsar · H6484 · to press, to urge (someone): Both words denote pressing or influencing another person toward a course of action, in the sense of urging or persuading.

In the other Testament 1 word

ἀπατάω apatáō · G538 · to mislead, to deceive, deception: Greek ἀπατάω focuses specifically on deception/deluding as the method of persuasion, while Hebrew סוּת encompasses a broader range of persuasion and incitement that may or may not involve deception.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Urge002003003023: The word describes enticing, moving, or stirring someone to action, as Satan incites David to number Israel (1 Chronicles 21:1) and Delilah entices Samson to reveal his secret (Judges 14:15's related pressure), tying the word to persuasive incitement.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5496. suth [סוּת] verb Hiph`il incite, allure, instigate (Late Hebrew Hiph`il, id.); —…

H5496. suth
[סוּת] verb Hiph`il incite, allure, instigate (Late Hebrew Hiph`il, id.); —
Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular suffix הֱִסיתְךָ 1Sa 26:19, הֲסֵיתְךָ Job 36:16; Job 36:3feminine singular הֵסַ֫תָּה 1Ki 21:25 (Ges§ 72w Köi. 460); 3 plural suffix הִסִּית֫וּךָ Jer 38:22 (Ges§ 72ee); Imperfect3masculine singular יַסִּית 2Ki 18:32 2Ki 18:2t., but also וַיָּ֫סֶת 2Sa 24:1; 1Ch 21:1, suffix יְִסיתְךָ Deu 13:7; Job 36:18, etc.; Participle מַסִּית Jer 43:3; 2Ch 32:11; —
1. a. incite to make a request (with accusative of person + infinitive) Jdg 1:14 (on text see GFM) = Jos 15:18.
b. allure וַיְסִיתֵם מִמֶּנּוּ2Ch 18:31 and God allured them away from him (si vera lectio; strike out clause as gloss Be Kit); so also Job 36:16 according to De Hi Bu and others; he allureth thee out of the mouth of distress, but Di Du freedom hath seduced thee; for meaning seduce, entice, compare also Job 36:18.
2 instigate, in bad sense, with accusative of person, + בְּ against, 1Sa 26:19; 2Sa 24:1; Jer 43:3; Job 2:3; with accusative of person alone 1Ki 21:25; 2Ki 18:32 = Isa 36:18, compare 2Ch 32:15; Deu 13:7; Jer 38:22; + infinitive 1Ch 21:1; 2Ch 18:2; 2Ch 32:11.
סוּת
noun see סוה

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Urge18 occurrences

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