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title: שׁוּט — row · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוּט (7751), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: row. BDB 1906: vb. go rove about Pōʿl. Hithpōʿl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוּט

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«שׁוּט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **row** — 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:** 13 times · **Key:** 7751 · **BDB:** שׁוּט

### Glosses

\[are\].roving.about (2); going.about (2); they.went.about (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

row [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7751/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. go rove about Pōʿl. Hithpōʿl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7751/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. go or rove about (NH Aramaic שׁוּט rove, row (Jon 1:13), swim (Is 25:11), stroke, besmear; v. also שׁוֹט);— go or rove about: Pf. 3 pl., abs. שָׁטוּ הָעָם Nu 11:8 (J; gathering manna), so, c. ב loc., Impf. 3 mpl. וַיָּשֻׁטוּ 2 S 24:8, Imv. ms. שׁוּט־נָא v 2, Inf. cstr. שׁוּט Jb 1:7, שֻׁט 2:2 (both ‖ הִתְהַלֵּךְ), perhaps also Gn 24:63 (לָשׁוּט for לָשׂוּחַ, so 𝔖 Thes 1322 cf. Di Gunk Dr); Je 8:6 Du reads שָׁט for שָׁב.—Pt. שָׁטִים v. שׁוּט denom. infr. Pōʿl. go eagerly, quickly, to and fro: Impf. 3 ms. יְשׁוֹטְטוּ לְבַקֵּשׁ Am 8:12 (‖ וְנָעוּ); abs. יְשֹׁטְטוּ Dn 12:4; c. ב loc., Imv. mpl. שׁוֹטְטוּ Je 5:1, Pt. pl. מְשׁוֹטְטִים Zc 4:10, מְשֹׁטְטוֹת 2 Ch 16:9 (both of עֵינֵי י׳). Hithpōʿl. Imv. fpl., ב loc., הִתְשׁוֹטַטְנָה Je 49:3 run to and fro.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁוּט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7751/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 24:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.24.8/)

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וַיָּשֻׁ֖טוּ בְּכָל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ מִקְצֵ֨ה תִשְׁעָ֧ה חֳדָשִׁ֛ים וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים י֖וֹם יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.about in all the land and they.came from.\[the\] end of.nine months and twenty day\[s\] Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* So when they had gone to and fro through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

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[Ezekiel 27:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.8/)

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יֹשְׁבֵ֤י צִידוֹן֙ וְאַרְוַ֔ד הָי֥וּ שָׁטִ֖ים לָ֑ךְ חֲכָמַ֤יִךְ צוֹר֙ הָ֣יוּ בָ֔ךְ הֵ֖מָּה חֹבְלָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* the.inhabitants of.Sidon and Arvad they.were \[those.who\].row for you your.skillful \[people\] O.Tyre they.were in you they sailors \[were\].your

*JPS 1917:* The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers; thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.

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