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שְׁכוֹל

shᵉkôwl · H7908 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. being bereaved of children

    Process by which humans lose their offspring through an untimely death

    Examples

    Psalm 35:12 They repay me evil for good, To the bereavement of my soul.

    Isaiah 47:8 “Now, then, hear this, you luxuriant one, Who lives securely, Who says in her heart, ‘I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow, Nor know the loss of children.’

    Isaiah 47:9 “But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great power of your spells.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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The noun for bereavement through loss of children, used of the psalmist's soul repaid with evil "to the bereavement of my soul" (Psalm 35:12) and of the proud city's sudden, unexpected "loss of children and widowhood" (Isaiah 47:8, 47:9).
Word family 4 words

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

שָׁכֹל shâkôl · H7921 · bereaved of children · 24×שַׁכּוּל shakkûwl · H7909 · bereaved of (one's) children, having lost (one's) young · 6×שְׁכוֹלshᵉkôwl · H7908שִׁכֻּלִים shikkulîym · H7923 · bereavement · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7908. shekol שְׁכוֺל noun [masculine] bereavement, loss of children; — שׁ אֵדַע ׳לֹא Isa…
H7908. shekol
שְׁכוֺל noun [masculine] bereavement, loss of children; — שׁ אֵדַע ׳לֹא Isa 47:8 (|| אַלְמָנָה), compare Isa 47:9; figurative Psa 35:12.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Dead3 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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