סָחַב
çâchab · H5498 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to drag away
Causative action by which humans or animals move relatively heavy objects by pulling them over the ground
Examples2 Samuel 17:13 “And if he withdraws into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it into the valley until not even a pebble is found there.”
Jeremiah 15:3 “And I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the LORD: “the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth to devour and destroy.
Jeremiah 22:19 “He will be buried with a donkey’s burial, Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
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
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated: they 2
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
- Not stated: we 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- הֶםthem 2
- וֹhim 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until+ נַחַלstream, valley, wadi 1
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 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 1 word
- מָשַׁךְ mâshak · H4900 · to be tall, to go, to march
- מָשַׁךְ (māšak) shares the core sense of drawing or pulling, though it often carries a more continuous or extended action, whereas סָחַב may emphasize a more forceful or violent dragging motion
In the other Testament 2 words
- σύρω sýrō · G4951 · to pull, to drag, to draw
- σύρω (syrō) is the standard Greek verb for dragging or drawing something forcibly, matching the core sense of סָחַב in contexts of pulling or drawing out with force
- ἑλκύω helkýō · G1670 · to pull, to drag, to draw
- ἕλκω (helkō) denotes drawing or dragging, often with the nuance of pulling something toward oneself, corresponding to the drawing/pulling aspect of סָחַב
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The word describes dragging or hauling something along the ground, as bodies are dragged in judgment imagery (Jeremiah 15:3, 22:19), tying the word to this forceful pulling motion.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5498. sachab [סָחַב] verb drag (Imperfect consecutive 1 singular ואסחב MI18, suffix…
[סָחַב] verb drag (Imperfect consecutive 1 singular ואסחב MI18, suffix ואסחבה Ib12.13; Phoenician סחב Lzb328; Arabic , Ethiopic ); —
Qal Perfect1plural וְסָחַ֫בְנוּ consecutive 2Sa 17:13; Imperfect3masculine singular suffix יִסְחָבוּם Jer 49:20; Jer 50:45; Infinitive absolute סָחוֺב Jer 22:19; construct לִסְחֹב Jer 15:3; — drag, a city עַדהַֿנַּחַל 2Sa 17:13, corpses Jer 15:3; Jer 22:19, captives, under figure of sheep dragged off by wild beast Jer 49:20 = Jer 50:45 (ᵐ5 passive, whence Schw Gie suppose a
Niph`al יִסָּחֲבוּ).
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
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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