שַׂכִּין
sakkîyn · H7915 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
- KnifeEating utensils7 verses
Meanings
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knife
A small blade with a handle, used for cutting
ExamplesProverbs 23:2 And put a knife to your throat If you are a person of great appetite.
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
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- חֶרֶב chereb · H2719 · chisel, knife, sword
- חֶרֶב is the common Hebrew term for a sword or blade used for cutting; while typically larger than a knife, it overlaps semantically as a sharp cutting instrument and in some contexts (e.g., Genesis 22:6,10) appears in parallel with knife imagery for similar functions.
In the other Testament 1 word
- μάχαιρα máchaira · G3162 · sword, dagger, war
- μάχαιρα is the standard Greek term for a knife or short sword used for cutting, including ritual slaughter and everyday use, making it the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew שַׂכִּין in contexts requiring a cutting instrument.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The noun for a knife, used in the warning to a person of great appetite to "put a knife to your throat" as a caution against overindulgence (Proverbs 23:2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7915. sakkin שַׂכִּין noun [masculine] knife (Late Hebrew סַכִּין; probably loanword…
שַׂכִּין noun [masculine] knife (Late Hebrew סַכִּין; probably loanword (Lewy Fremdw. 176) from Aramaic סַכִּינְא, id., whence also Arabic Nö M 125 Frä84; √ dubious); — absolute ׳שׂ Pro 23:2.
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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