Word

שְׁחִין

shᵉchîyn · H7822 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences

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Meanings

boil, inflammation

Swelling or inflammation of the skin of humans or animals

Examples
Exodus 9:9 “Then it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will turn into boils breaking out with sores on every person and animal through all the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 9:10 So they took soot from a kiln, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses tossed it toward the sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on every person and animal.
Exodus 9:11 The soothsayer priests could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the soothsayer priests as well as on all the Egyptians.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מִצְרַיִםEgypt 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 3 groups

פָּרַחto break out 2
רַעevil, bad 2
יָכֹלto be able to 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 7
עַלon, upon, over, against 4
לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

מָקוֹםplace 1
פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
צָרֶבֶתburning 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

ἕλκος hélkos · G1668 · sore, ulcer: Greek ἕλκος (hélkos, G1668) renders Hebrew שְׁחִין (shᵉchîyn, H7822) as the standard LXX equivalent for skin sores/boils, both denoting suppurating skin lesions without register or domain restriction.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Impact002001001024: The word names an inflamed, painful sore, as in Exodus 9:9's plague that "turn[ed] into boils breaking out with sores on every person and animal" and Leviticus 13:18's "the body has a boil on its skin" — an affliction striking the body.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7822. shechin שְׁחִין noun masculine boil, collective eruption; — on man 2Ki 20:7 = Isa…

H7822. shechin
שְׁחִין noun masculine boil, collective eruption; — on man 2Ki 20:7 = Isa 38:21, ׳שׁ רָ֑ע Deu 28:35; Job 2:7; possibly leprous Lev 13:18-19, Lev 13:20, הַשּׁ ׳צָרֶ֫בֶת Lev 13:23 (see ׳צ; all P), in Egypt, on man and beast Exo 9:9-10, Exo 9:11 (twice in verse) (all P), construct מִצְרַיִם שְׁחִין Deu 28:27.
שׁחף (√ of שַׁחֶפֶת and possibly of שַׁחַף; Arabic is pare, peel off; also affect with consumption of lungs; consumption, so Jewish-Aramaic שַׁחַפְתָּא [for שַׁחֶפֶת]).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Impact13 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