שַׁכּוּל
shakkûwl · H7909 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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Process by which humans or animals lose their offspring through an untimely death (bereaved of (one's) children, having lost (one's) young)
Examples2 Samuel 17:8 Then Hushai said, “You yourself know your father and his men, that they are warriors and they are fierce, like a bear deprived of her cubs in the field. And your father is an expert in warfare, and he will not spend the night with the people.
Proverbs 17:12 Let a person meet a bear robbed of her cubs, Rather than a fool in his foolishness.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דֹּב(Syrian brown) bear 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲנִיI 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
- ἄτεκνος áteknos · G815 · childless, having no children
- Greek ἄτεκνος denotes the state of being without children (childlessness as a condition), while Hebrew שַׁכּוּל emphasizes the loss or bereavement aspect (robbed of children, bereaved), though both terms overlap substantially in referring to the absence of offspring.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dead002001001018
- The adjective for being bereaved of children or young, used of a mother bear "deprived of her cubs" (2 Samuel 17:8, Proverbs 17:12) and directly of Zion's own bereavement, "I have been bereaved of my children" (Isaiah 49:21); the Song of Solomon citations (4:2, 6:6) use the same word negated, praising healthy flocks where "not one... has lost her young."
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7909. shakkuwl [שָׁבוּל] adjective childless (through bereavement); — feminine singular…
[שָׁבוּל] adjective childless (through bereavement); — feminine singular שְׁכוּלָה Isa 49:21 (figurative of Zion); — on form see BaNB 47.
שַׁכּוּל adjective bereaved, robbed of offspring (Ba§ 37 c); — especiallyשׁ ׳דֹּב 2Sa 17:8; Hos 13:8; Pro 17:12 (simile of fierceness); שַׁכֻּלוֺת נְשֵׁיהֶם Jer 18:21; בָּהֶם אֵין שַׁכֻּלָה Son 4:2 (of flock, in simile) = Son 6:6.
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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