---
title: סַרְעַפָּה — bough · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סַרְעַפָּה (5634), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bough. BDB 1906: n.f. bough. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5634.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ס](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1505-3.md)‎ / סַרְעַפָּה‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# סַרְעַפָּה

<!-- .meta -->
«סַרְעַפָּה» 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 1 verse in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5634 · **BDB:** סַרְעַפָּה

### Glosses

boughs (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bough [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5634/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. bough [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5634/#m2)

<!-- fold -->
**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bough (with infixed ר, cf. Ges§ 85 w, as transition-cons. Köii. 1, 472; cf. Biblical Aramaic; Kau§ 62 F. Selle De Aramaismis Lib. Ezech. 17); \*—pl. sf. סַרְעַפֹּתֶיּו Ez 31:5 (of Pharaoh under fig. of tree, cf. Co Berthol Toy).

<!-- .note -->
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סַרְעַפָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5634/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Ezekiel 31:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.5/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
עַל־כֵּן֙ גָּבְהָ֣א קֹמָת֔וֹ מִכֹּ֖ל עֲצֵ֣י הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה וַתִּרְבֶּ֨ינָה סַֽרְעַפֹּתָ֜יו וַתֶּאֱרַ֧כְנָה פֹארֹתָ֛יו מִמַּ֥יִם רַבִּ֖ים בְּשַׁלְּחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.was.tall height its more than.all the.trees of the.field and they.became.great boughs its and they.became.long branches its from waters many when it sent.out

*JPS 1917:* Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long, because of the multitude of waters, when it shot them forth.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [סֶרֶן](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b6_5e8_5b6_5df.md)
- next →: [סָרַף](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5635.md)
- ↑ back to [ס](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1505-3.md)