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title: שָׁבָץ — hath seized me · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁבָץ (7661), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: hath seized me. BDB 1906: n.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁבָץ

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«שָׁבָץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hath seized me** — 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:** 7661 · **BDB:** שָׁבָץ

### Glosses

dizziness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hath seized me [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7661/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7661/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. (meaning and connexion with above √ dub.);—אֲחָזַנִי הַשּׁ׳ 2 S 1:9 הַשּׁ׳ hath seized me, i.e. perhaps cramp; (EwG iii. 147 Th Ke, cf. Dr); al. giddiness (Thes Klo HPS), as intricacy, confusion; Kit Bu Now leave undecided.

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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, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁבָץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7661/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 1:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.1.9/)

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י עֲמָד־נָ֤א עָלַי֙ וּמֹ֣תְתֵ֔נִי כִּ֥י אֲחָזַ֖נִי הַשָּׁבָ֑ץ כִּֽי־כָל־ע֥וֹד נַפְשִׁ֖י בִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to me stand please over me and kill me (dm) it has.seized.me (the) dizziness (dm) all still life my \[is\].in me

*JPS 1917:* And he said unto me: Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for the agony hath taken hold of me; because my life is just yet in me.

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