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שׁוֹט

shôwṭ · H7752 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. whip

    Strip of leather or length of cord fastened to a handle, used for beating a person or urging on an animal

    Examples

    Proverbs 26:3 A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the back of fools.

    Isaiah 10:26 The LORD of armies will wield a whip against him like the defeat of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea, and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.

    Nahum 3:2 The sound of the whip, The sound of the roar of the wheel, Galloping horses And bounding chariots!

  2. A severe affliction, devastating disaster, or harsh punishment that brings about intense suffering, ruin, or death

    Examples

    Job 5:21 “You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, And you will not be afraid of violence when it comes.

    Job 9:23 “If the whip kills suddenly, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

    Isaiah 28:15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a pact. The gushing flood will not reach us when it passes by, Because we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”

How it’s used In 7 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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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In the other Testament 1 word
μάστιξ mástix · G3148 · to whip, to beat with a whip, whipping
Greek μάστιξ renders Hebrew שׁוֹט in contexts of literal whipping/scourging instruments, sharing the core semantic field of physical punishment tools.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Weapons001003001001020
The word names the instrument of the whip itself, as in 1 Kings 12:11's "my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."
Impact002001001024
The word also names the blow or scourge as an act of violence, as in Job 5:21's assurance of being "hidden from the scourge of the tongue."
Word family 4 words

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

שׁוּט shûwṭ · H7751 · to go about, to rove about, to row · 13×שׁוֹטshôwṭ · H7752מָשׁוֹט mâshôwṭ · H4880 · oar · 2×שַׁיִט shayiṭ · H7885 · oar · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7752. shot שׁוֺט noun masculineIsa 28:15 scourge, whip (Late Hebrew id., so Arabic , ()…
H7752. shot
שׁוֺט noun masculineIsa 28:15 scourge, whip (Late Hebrew id., so Arabic , () mix, stir about and beat; Ethiopic Aramaic שׁוֺטֶא, ; from foregoing? compare German streifen; or onomatopoetic, compare swish, switch?); — ׳שׁ absolute Isa 10:26 +, construct Job 5:21; plural שׁוֺטִים 1Ki 12:11 +; —
1 scourge, for chastisement, 1Ki 12:11, 1Ki 12:14 2Ch 10:11-12, (all with verb יִסַּר); figurative of national scourge (wielded by ׳י) Isa 10:26; Isa 28:15 (Qr; > Kt שׁיט), Isa 28:18 (both ׳שׁ שׁוֺטֵף, see שׁטף), calamity Job 9:23; lash of (accusing) tongue Job 5:21 (read ׳מִשּׁ as ᵐ5).
2 whip, for horse, שׁ ׳קוֺל Nah 3:2 i.e. crack of whip, ׳שׁ לַסּוּם Pro 26:3 (|| כְּסִילִים לְגֵו שֵׁבֶט).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Weapons7 occurrencesImpact4 occurrences

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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