Word

סִיג

çîyg · H5509 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

dross

Scum on the surface of molten metal; regarded as rubbish and without value

Examples
Psalm 119:119 You have removed all the wicked of the earth like impurities; Therefore I love Your testimonies.
Proverbs 25:4 Take away the impurities from the silver, And there comes out a vessel for the smith;
Isaiah 1:22 Your silver has become waste matter, Your drink diluted with water.
base silver

Literally silver of dross, probably a thin layer of unpurified silver used to cover an earthenware vessel, associated with a lack of sincerity

Examples
Proverbs 26:23 Like an earthenware vessel overlaid with silver impurities Are burning lips and a wicked heart.

How it’s used In 5 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

כֶּסֶףsilver 1
ךְyour 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

הָגָהto remove 1
הָיָהto be, to become 1
צָרַףto test 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁבַתto cease, to rest, to put an end 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 6

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כֶּסֶףsilver 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Metals001002005008: The word names dross, the impure refuse separated from precious metal in the refining process, as silver becomes dross through unfaithfulness (Isaiah 1:22), tying the word to this metallic byproduct.
Cover002003001005: The word's dross sense ties it to an impure coating or covering over what should be pure metal, a broader containment/covering sense than the bare refining byproduct.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

סוּג çûwg · H5472 · to step back, to retreat, to cause to step back · 24×סִיגçîyg · H5509

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5509. sig or sug שִׂיג סִיג, noun [masculine] 1 a moving back or away; 2 dross (what is…

H5509. sig
or sug שִׂיג סִיג, noun [masculine]
1 a moving back or away;
2 dross (what is removed from metal); — absoluteסִיג Eze 22:18 Qr (סוג Kt), שִׂיג 1Ki 18:27 **omitted ᵐ5L, dittograph for שִׂיחַ Klo Bur. (שׂ for ס, but see below); plural סִיגִים (van d. H. סִגִּים) Isa 1:22 Isa 1:3t.; סִגִֿים Eze 22:18 Eze 22:2t.; suffix סִיגָ֑יִךָ Isa 1:25; —
1 a moving back, away: לוֺ שִׂיג 1Ki 18:27 there is a moving back to him = he has moved back, away (probably of temporary withdrawal, different from דֶּרֶךְ journey).
2 dross, usually of silver Pro 25:4 (מִכָּ֑סֶף), Pro 26:23 ס ׅ׳(כֶּסֶף, so (figurative of Israel) Isa 1:22 compare see 25, Eze 22:18b (ᵐ5 ׳כ ׳ס בְּתוֺךְ ᵑ0, כֶּסֶף סִיגִים Co Berthol; — Co strike out ׳ס not so Berthol Toy), compare Eze 22:18 a. 19; indefinite Psa 119:119.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Metals7 occurrences Cover1 occurrence

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