סְחָבָה
çᵉchâbâh · H5499 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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rags
Pieces of old cloth
ExamplesJeremiah 38:11 So Ebed-melech took the men under his authority and went into the king’s palace to a place beneath the storeroom, and took from there worn-out clothes and worn-out rags, and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 38:12 Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these worn-out clothes and rags under your armpits under the ropes”; and Jeremiah did so.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בְּלוֹאrag 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
- בֶּגֶד beged · H899 · cloth, covering, clothes
- General Hebrew term for cloth or garment that can overlap with סְחָבָה in referring to pieces of fabric, though בֶּגֶד is broader and not limited to worn or cast cloths
In the other Testament 1 word
- ῥάκος rhákos · G4470 · patch
- Greek term for a piece of cloth or rag, directly equivalent to the Hebrew term for a worn cloth or clout used in casting/throwing contexts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Cloth001002005003
- The word names a cast-off, filthy rag, used to describe all human righteous deeds as filthy garments before God (Isaiah 64:6), tying the word to this soiled fabric.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5499. sechabah סְחָבָה noun feminine rag, clout (stuff pulled or dragged about; > LagBN…
סְחָבָה noun feminine rag, clout (stuff pulled or dragged about; > LagBN 143 √ , become altered for the worse); — only plural סְחָבוֺת Jer 38:11-12, (both + מְלָחִים).
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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