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title: שׂוּג — fence about · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׂוּג (7735), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: fence about. BDB 1906: vb. fence about. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׂוּג

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«שׂוּג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fence about** — 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:** 7735 · **BDB:** סוּג²

### Glosses

you.cause.to.grow (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fence about [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7735/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. fence about [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7735/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. fence about (Aramaic word; ܣܘܓ, ܣܳܓ sepsit, circumsepsit, clausit, ܣܝܳܓܳܐ sepes, cf. 𝔗 סיג Pa. fence about, סְיָיגָא fence; NH סוג fence about; Arabic سَيَاجٌ enclosure made with thorns, etc., around grape-vines, etc. Lane1460, سوّج ii. make a سِيَاجٌ );—only Pt. pass. f. בִּטְנֵךְ עֲרֵמַת חִטִּים סוּגָה בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּים Ct 7:3 thy body a heap of wheat fenced about with lilies (cf. especially De Bu). intens. Impf. 2 fs. תְּשַׂגְֿשֵׂ֑גִי Is 17:11 thou dost fence it carefully about (\> make it grow, as if שׂוג = שׂגה, AE Ki Brd Du).

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׂוּג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7735/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 17:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.11/)

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בְּי֤וֹם נִטְעֵךְ֙ תְּשַׂגְשֵׂ֔גִי וּבַבֹּ֖קֶר זַרְעֵ֣ךְ תַּפְרִ֑יחִי נֵ֥ד קָצִ֛יר בְּי֥וֹם נַחֲלָ֖ה וּכְאֵ֥ב אָנֽוּשׁ׃ס

*Word for word:* on the.day your.planting your you.cause.to.grow and in the morning seed your you.cause.to.sprout \[is\].a.heap a.harvest in a.day of.sickness and pain incurable

*JPS 1917:* In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow, and in the morning thou didst make thy seed to blossom — a heap of boughs in the day of grief and of desperate pain.

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