שָׂחָה
sâchâh · H7811 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to swim
Action by which humans move forward through water with the help of their arms and legs
ExamplesIsaiah 25:11 And he will spread out his hands in the middle of it As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim, But the Lord will lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.
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to drench
Causative action by which humans cause an object to be thoroughly wet, as if it has to swim
ExamplesPsalm 6:6 I am weary with my sighing; Every night I make my bed swim, I flood my couch with my tears.
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: I 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִטָּהcouch 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ לַיִלnight 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פָּרַשׂto spread out 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Move002002001012
- The verb describes the motion of swimming, as in Isaiah 25:11's "as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim" — physical movement through water.
- Wet002001001071
- The same image in Isaiah 25:11 situates this motion in water. (This entry's other sampled citation, Psalm 6:7's "my eye has wasted away with grief," does not itself show this verb's sense — likely the same kind of one-verse offset already documented for Davidic psalms with musical superscriptions, since the closely related image of tears flooding a bed falls at Psalm 6:6 in English numbering.)
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7811. sachah [שָׂחָה] verb swim (Late Hebrew סָחוּ swimming; Targum סְחָא, Syriac swim,…
[שָׂחָה] verb swim (Late Hebrew סָחוּ swimming; Targum סְחָא, Syriac swim, bathe, also שָׂחְיָנָא סַחְיָנָא, סָחְיָא, swimmer; Aph`el wash); —
Qal Participle + Infinitive construct לִשְׂחוֺת הַשּׂחֶה יְפָרֵשׂ כַּאֲשֶׁר Isa 25:11.
Hiph`il Imperfect1singular אַשְׂחֶה Psa 6:7 I make my bed swim (with my tears; another view below שִׂיחַQal 1).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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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