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title: סָרוּחַ — excess · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָרוּחַ (5628), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: excess. BDB 1906: vb. go free, be unrestrained overrun, exceed. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סָרוּחַ

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«סָרוּחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **excess** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 5628 · **BDB:** סָרַח

### Glosses

of.sprawled.out.\[people\] (1); overhung (1); sprawled.out (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

excess [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5628/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. go free, be unrestrained overrun, exceed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5628/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. go free, be unrestrained overrun, exceed (NH סָרוּחַ overhanging, flapping; Arabic سَرَح of camels, etc., pasture where they please; also send forth to pasture; ii. let a wife go free; let down the hair; سُرُح easy.—NH סָרַח, Aramaic ܣܪܰܚ usually = corrupt, sin);— Impf. 3 fs. תִּסְרַח Ex 26:12; Pt. act. f. סֹרַ֫חַת Ez 17:6; pass. סָרוּחַ (cf. Köii. 1, 137 Ges§ 50 f. BaNB 180) Ex 26:13; pl. סְרוּחִים Am 6:7, סְרֻחִים v 4; cstr. סְרוּחֵי Ez 23:15;— go free, be unrestrained: וּסְרֻהִים עַל־עַרְשׂוֹתָם Am 6:4 i.e. prob. = and are sprawling upon their couches (in contempt. hyperbole), מִרְזַח ס׳ v 7 the revelry of sprawlers; pt. act. of overrunning, spreading vine Ez 17:6. of overhanging stuffs (proposes overrunning, exceeding, extended beyond limits) תִּסְרַח עַל אֲחֹרֵי הַמִּשְׁכָּן Ex 26:12 (P) it shall overrun (overhang), over the back of the tabern., so יִהְיֶה סָרוּחַ עַל־צִדֵּי הַמּ׳ v 13; סְרוּחֵי טְבוּלִים Ez 23:15 overhung of turbans, extended with respect to turbans, = with pendant turbans (cf. \[טְבוּל\]). Pf. 3 fs. נִסְרְחָה חָכְמָתָם Je 49:7 usually is their wisdom let loose (i.e. dismissed, gone)? (‖ הֵאֵין עוֹד חָכְמָה בְּתֵימָ֑ן אָֽבְדָה עֵצָה מִבָּנִים); but NöExpos. May, 1897, 363 is corrupt (cf. NH, and especially Aramaic).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָרוּחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5628/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 6:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.7/)

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לָכֵ֛ן עַתָּ֥ה יִגְל֖וּ בְּרֹ֣אשׁ גֹּלִ֑ים וְסָ֖ר מִרְזַ֥ח סְרוּחִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* therefore now they.will.go.into.exile at.\[the\] head of.\[those.who\].go.into.exile and it.will.come.to.an.end \[the\].revelry of.sprawled.out.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* Therefore now shall they go captive at the head of them that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.

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[Amos 6:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.4/)

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הַשֹּֽׁכְבִים֙ עַל־מִטּ֣וֹת שֵׁ֔ן וּסְרֻחִ֖ים עַל־עַרְשׂוֹתָ֑ם וְאֹכְלִ֤ים כָּרִים֙ מִצֹּ֔אן וַעֲגָלִ֖ים מִתּ֥וֹךְ מַרְבֵּֽק׃

*Word for word:* \[those who\].lie on beds of.ivory and.\[people\] sprawled.out on couches their and \[those.who\].eat lambs from.\[the\] flock and calves from the.midst of.\[the\].stall

*JPS 1917:* That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

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