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title: שִׂבְמָה — Shebam · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׂבְמָה (7643), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Shebam. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׂבְמָה

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«שִׂבְמָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shebam** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 7643 · **BDB:** שְׂבָם

### Glosses

of.Sibmah (3); Sibmah (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shebam [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7643/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7643/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Nu 32:3, שִֽׂבְמָה v 38 Jos 13:19; Is 16:8, 9; Je 48:32; in Moab (Reuben), near Heshbon (cf. also Jerome Is 16:8); Σεβαμα.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׂבְמָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7643/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 13:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.19/)

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וְקִרְיָתַ֣יִם וְשִׂבְמָ֔ה וְצֶ֥רֶת הַשַּׁ֖חַר צֶ֥רֶת הַשַּׁ֖חַר בְּהַ֥ר הָעֵֽמֶק׃

*Word for word:* and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth Shahar on the.hill of the.valley

*JPS 1917:* and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zerethshahar in the mount of the valley;

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[Isaiah 16:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.8/)

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כִּ֣י שַׁדְמוֹת֩ חֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן אֻמְלָ֜ל גֶּ֣פֶן שִׂבְמָ֗ה בַּעֲלֵ֤י גוֹיִם֙ הָלְמ֣וּ שְׂרוּקֶּ֔יהָ עַד־יַעְזֵ֥ר נָגָ֖עוּ תָּ֣עוּ מִדְבָּ֑ר שְׁלֻ֣חוֹתֶ֔יהָ נִטְּשׁ֖וּ עָ֥בְרוּ יָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.terraced.fields of.Heshbon it.has.languished the.vine\[s\] of.Sibmah rulers of.nations they.have.struck.down its.choice grapes to Jazer they.reached they.wandered \[the\].wilderness shoots its they.were.spread.out they.passed.over \[the\].sea

*JPS 1917:* For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

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