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title: סְעַפָּה — bough · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סְעַפָּה (5589), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: bough. BDB 1906: n.f. bough, branch. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סְעַפָּה

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«סְעַפָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bough** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5589 · **BDB:** סְעַפָּה

### Glosses

boughs (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bough [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5589/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. bough, branch [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5589/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bough, branch;—pl. sf. סְעַפֹּתָיו Ez 31:6, 8 (of king under fig. of cedar).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סְעַפָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5589/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 31:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.6/)

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בִּסְעַפֹּתָ֤יו קִֽנְנוּ֙ כָּל־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְתַ֤חַת פֹּֽארֹתָיו֙ יָֽלְד֔וּ כֹּ֖ל חַיַּ֣ת הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה וּבְצִלּוֹ֙ יֵֽשְׁב֔וּ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיִ֥ם רַבִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* in boughs its they.made.nests every (the).bird of the.heavens and under branches its they.gave.birth every (the).animal of the.field and in shade its they.dwelt all nations great

*JPS 1917:* All the fowls of heaven made their nests in its boughs, and all the beasts of the field did bring forth their young under its branches, and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.

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[Ezekiel 31:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.8/)

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אֲרָזִ֣ים לֹֽא־עֲמָמֻהוּ֮ בְּגַן־אֱלֹהִים֒ בְּרוֹשִׁ֗ים לֹ֤א דָמוּ֙ אֶל־סְעַפֹּתָ֔יו וְעַרְמֹנִ֥ים לֹֽא־הָי֖וּ כְּפֹֽארֹתָ֑יו כָּל־עֵץ֙ בְּגַן־אֱלֹהִ֔ים לֹא־דָמָ֥ה אֵלָ֖יו בְּיָפְיֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* cedars not they eclipsed.it in the.garden of.God fir.trees not they.were.like (to) boughs its and plane.trees not they.were like branches its every tree in the.garden of.God not it.was.like (to) it in beauty its

*JPS 1917:* The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the cypress-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

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