שׁוּט
shûwṭ · H7751 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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to go about or rove about
An action by which humans move through a certain area, usually in a controlled and systematic way, in order to look for something or obtain information about it
ExamplesNumbers 11:8 The people would roam about and gather it and grind it between two millstones, or pound it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make loaves with it; and its taste was like the taste of cake baked with oil.
2 Samuel 24:2 So the king said to Joab the commander of the army, who was with him, “Roam about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and conduct a census of the people, so that I may know the number of the people.”
2 Samuel 24:8 So when they had roamed about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
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to row
An action by which humans move the oars of a ship through water in order to make it move forward
ExamplesEzekiel 27:8 “The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; Your wise men, Tyre, were aboard; they were your sailors.
Ezekiel 27:26 “Your rowers have brought you Into great waters; The east wind has broken you In the heart of the seas.
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
Who or what does itSubject
12 occurrences in 9 groups
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךְyou 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 6 groups
- בin/on/with+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 5
- בin/on/with+ גְּדֵרָהsheepfold, wall 1
- בin/on/with+ חוּץoutside 1
- בin/on/with+ שֵׁבֶטtribe, rod 1
- לto/for+ בָּקַשׁto seek, to search, to look for 1
- לto/for+ חָזַקto be strong, to strengthen 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 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
- Move002002001012
- The word describes roaming or ranging about, as in 2 Samuel 24:2's command to "roam about now through all the tribes of Israel" and Job 1:7's description of Satan "roaming about on the earth and walking around on it."
- Despise002001002005
- This nuance is not directly shown by the sampled citations here, which describe physical roaming rather than contempt; it reflects another, less common extension of this root.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7751. shuwt I. שׁוּט verb go or rove about (Late Hebrew, Aramaic שׁוּט rove, row (Jon…
I. שׁוּט verb go or rove about (Late Hebrew, Aramaic שׁוּט rove, row (Jon 1:13), swim (Isa 25:11), stroke, besmear; see also שׁוֺט); —
Qal go or rove about: Perfect3plural, absolute הָעָם שָׁטוּ Num 11:8 (J; gathering manna), so, with ב location, Imperfect3masculine plural וַיָּשֻׁטוּ 2Sa 24:8, Imperative masculine singular שׁוּטנָֿא 2Sa 24:2, Infinitive construct שׁוּט Job 1:7, שֻׁט Job 2:2 (both || הִתְהַלֵךְ), perhaps also Gen 24:63 (לָשׁוּט for לָשׁוּחַ, so ᵑ6 Thes1322 compare Di Gunk Dr); Jer 8:6 Du reads שָׁט for שָׁב. — Participle שָׁטִים see שׁוּט denominative below
Po`l. go eagerly, quickly, to and fro: Imperfect3masculine singular לְבַקֵּשׁ יְשׁוֺטְטוּ Amo 8:12 (|| וְנָעוּ); absolute יְשֹׁטְטוּ Dan 12:4; with ב location, Imperative masculine plural שׁוֺטְטוּ Jer 5:1, Participle plural מְשׁוֺטְטִים Zec 4:10, מְשֹׁטְטוֺת2Ch 16:9 (both of י ׳עֵינֵי).
Hithpo`lel Imperative feminine plural, ב location, הִתְשׁוֺטַטְנָת Jer 49:3 run to and fro.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
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