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title: שׂוּט — swerve · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׂוּט (7750), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: swerve. BDB 1906: vb. swerve, fall away. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׂוּט

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«שׂוּט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **swerve** — 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:** 7750 · **BDB:** שׂוּט

### Glosses

\[those.who\].fall.away (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

swerve [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7750/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. swerve, fall away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7750/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swerve, fall away (akin to שָׂטָה q.v.; NH סוּט Hiph. is shake, move away; Assyrian šâṭu, rebel, Meissn90; Ethiopic ሦጠ: bring back, restore; in 𝔗 apostatize is סְטָא);— Pt. pl. cstr. וְשָׂטֵי כָזָב ψ 40:5 those falling away to falsehood (GunkSchöpf. 40 וְשָׂטָה).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׂוּט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7750/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 40:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.5/)

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אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי הַגֶּ֗בֶר אֲשֶׁר־שָׂ֣ם יְ֭הֹוָה מִבְטַח֑וֹ וְֽלֹא־פָנָ֥ה אֶל־רְ֝הָבִ֗ים וְשָׂטֵ֥י כָזָֽב׃

*Word for word:* how.blessed! \[is\].the man who he.has.made Yahweh of.confidence his.object and not he.has.turned to proud.people and \[those.who\].fall.away of.falsehood

*JPS 1917:* Happy is the man that hath made the LORD his trust, and hath not turned unto the arrogant, nor unto such as fall away treacherously.

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