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title: סָמַן — in an appointed place · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָמַן (5567), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: in an appointed place. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סָמַן

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«סָמַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **in an appointed place** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5567 · **BDB:** סמן

### Glosses

an.appointed.\[place\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

in an appointed place [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5567/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5567/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. whence Pt. נִסְמָן Is 28:25 (si vera l.) barley in an appointed place, or a determined portion (cf. Ges Hi De al.), but נ׳ lacking in 𝔊 and plausibly taken as dittogr. for כֻּסֶּמֶת by WeProl. 417; Gesch. Isr. i. 409 CheComm. and Hpt. Du; cf. Brd GuKau.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָמַן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5567/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 28:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.25/)

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הֲלוֹא֙ אִם־שִׁוָּ֣ה פָנֶ֔יהָ וְהֵפִ֥יץ קֶ֖צַח וְכַמֹּ֣ן יִזְרֹ֑ק וְשָׂ֨ם חִטָּ֤ה שׂוֹרָה֙ וּשְׂעֹרָ֣ה נִסְמָ֔ן וְכֻסֶּ֖מֶת גְּבֻלָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* ? not if he.has.leveled surface its and does.he.scatter black.cumin and cumin does.he.sprinkle? and does.he.put? wheat a.row and barley an.appointed.\[place\] and spelt border its

*JPS 1917:* When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place and the spelt in the border thereof?

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