שְׁבַק
shᵉbaq · H7662 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to leave alone
State in which an object is allowed to remain in its location
ExamplesDaniel 4:15 “Yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, But with a band of iron and bronze around it In the new grass of the field; And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, And let him share with the animals in the grass of the earth.
Daniel 4:23 ‘And in that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, “Chop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him share with the animals of the field until seven periods of time pass over him,”
Daniel 4:26 ‘And in that it was commanded to leave the stump with the roots of the tree, your kingdom will remain as yours after you recognize that it is Heaven that rules.
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Literally: to leave (an activity) alone; process by which the responsibility for an activity is transferred to someone else (to be left (to someone else))
ExamplesDaniel 2:44 “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.
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to leave alone, to stop interfering
Literally: to leave (an activity) alone; action by which humans refrain from interfering with an activity carried out by someone else
ExamplesEzra 6:7 “Leave that work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild that house of God on its site.
How it’s used In 6 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: you (more than one) 3
- מַלְכוּkingdom, reign 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- עִקַּרstump 3
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with+ אֲרַעearth 2
- לto/for+ עֲבִידָהaffairs 1
- לto/for+ עַםpeople 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָאnot 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲמַרto say 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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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Contrasting words 2 words
- אָחַז ʼâchaz · H270 · to be held, to be caught, to be fastened
- The lexical opposite of 'leave' or 'let alone' would be 'to seize' or 'take hold of' - the act of grasping or holding something rather than releasing or leaving it.
- תָּפַשׂ tâphas · H8610 · to take hold, to seize, to grasp
- Another Hebrew/Aramaic verb meaning 'to seize' or 'catch', representing the conceptual opposite of leaving or letting alone - actively taking or holding rather than releasing or abandoning.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἀφίημι aphíēmi · G863 · to let go away, to dismiss, to leave
- The standard Greek translation equivalent for the Aramaic שְׁבַק (leave, let alone), widely used in the LXX and NT for contexts of leaving, forsaking, or letting something remain. Both verbs share the core sense of leaving or abandoning something.
- καταλείπω kataleípō · G2641 · to leave, to leave from, to go away from
- Another Greek verb meaning 'to leave' or 'leave behind', serving as a natural translation equivalent for שְׁבַק in contexts where something or someone is left or abandoned.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Space002002001017
- Daniel 4:15 recounts Nebuchadnezzar's dream, “yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field.”
- Engage002003003011
- Ezra 6:7 has King Darius decree, “leave that work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild that house of God on its site.”
- Happen002002003003
- Daniel 2:44 recounts that “in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people.”
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7662. shebaq [שְׁבַק] verb leave, let alone (שְׁבַק ᵑ7, Syriac ; compare Biblical…
[שְׁבַק] verb leave, let alone (שְׁבַק ᵑ7, Syriac ; compare Biblical Hebrew, p. 990); —
Pe`al Infinitive לְמִשְׁבַּק Dan 4:23 leave roots, so Imperative masculine plural שְׁבֻ֫קוּ Dan 4:12; Dan 4:20 (both with ב location); Ezr 6:7 let alone, with ל accusative of thing.
Hithpe`el Imperfect3feminine singular תִּשְׁתְּבִק Dan 2:44 be left (of kingdom, + ל of a people).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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