שָׂחוּ
sâchûw · H7813 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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swimming
Action by which humans move forward through water with the help of their arms and legs
ExamplesEzekiel 47:5 Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not wade across, because the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a river that could not be crossed by wading.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַיִםwater 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- κολυμβάω kolymbáō · G2860 · to swim
- The standard Greek verb for 'to swim,' used in Acts 27:43 of those swimming to shore from the shipwreck. This is the direct translation equivalent for the Hebrew verb שָׂחוּ, both referring to the action of swimming through water.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- In its one occurrence, Ezekiel 47:5, the word describes the river's depth: "the water had risen, enough water to swim in" — water deep enough for the motion of swimming.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7813. sachu שָׂ֔חוּ noun [masculine] Sta§ 192 a] swimming (on formation (and tone) Ges§…
שָׂ֔חוּ noun [masculine] Sta§ 192 a] swimming (on formation (and tone) Ges§ 84 a c Köii. I, 60, 497); — שׂ ׳מֵי Eze 47:5.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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