Word

שַׁחֶפֶת

shachepheth · H7829 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

consumption

Exact meaning unknown; probably: a wasting disease such as consumption or tuberculosis; often seen as punishment from God

Examples
Leviticus 26:16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will summon a sudden terror against you, consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the soul languish; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it.
Deuteronomy 28:22 “The LORD will strike you with consumption, inflammation, fever, feverish heat, and with the sword, with blight, and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 2 groups

דּוּבto cause to pine away 1
כָּלָהto be finished 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֶּהָלָהanguish 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 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 1 entry

Sick002001001055: The word names a wasting illness sent as covenant judgment, as in Leviticus 26:16's "consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the soul languish" and Deuteronomy 28:22's "the LORD will strike you with consumption, inflammation, fever."

Word family 3 words

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

שַׁחַף shachaph · H7828 · seagull · 2×שַׁחֶפֶתshachepheth · H7829שָׁחִיף shâchîyph · H7824 · wooden panelling · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7829. shachepheth שַׁחֶ֫פֶת noun feminine wasting disease, consumption Deu 28:22; Lev…

H7829. shachepheth
שַׁחֶ֫פֶת noun feminine wasting disease, consumption Deu 28:22; Lev 26:16 (H).
שׁחץ (√ of following; compare Late Hebrew act proudly, and derivatives; Aramaic שַׁחְצָא lion ( Psa 17:12 editions); Ethiopic be insolent; Arabic is rise, be elevated; bulky, man of rank, but = שׁ ?).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Sick2 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