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title: שׂוּךְ — hedge up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׂוּךְ (7753), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: hedge up. BDB 1906: vb. hedge fence up, about. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׂוּךְ

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«שׂוּךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hedge up** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 7753 · **BDB:** שׂוּךְ

### Glosses

\[am\].about.to.fence.up (1); have.you.put.a.hedge (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hedge up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7753/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. hedge fence up, about [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7753/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hedge or fence up, about (= II. סוּךְ, q.v.);— Pf. 2 ms. שַׂכְתָּ בַעֲדוֹ Jb 1:10 hast fenced him about (protectingly); Pt. שָׂךְ Ho 2:8 I will hedge up (obstruct) thy way (acc.).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׂוּךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7753/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Hosea 2:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.8/)

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לָכֵ֛ן הִנְנִי־שָׂ֥ךְ אֶת־דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ בַּסִּירִ֑ים וְגָֽדַרְתִּי֙ אֶת־גְּדֵרָ֔הּ וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ לֹ֥א תִמְצָֽא׃

*Word for word:* therefore here I \[am\].about.to.fence.up (et) way your with (the) thorns and I.will.wall.up (et) wall her and paths her not she.will.find

*JPS 1917:* Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

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[Job 1:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.10/)

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הֲלֹֽא־אַ֠תָּה שַׂ֣כְתָּ בַעֲד֧וֹ וּבְעַד־בֵּית֛וֹ וּבְעַ֥ד כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֖וֹ מִסָּבִ֑יב מַעֲשֵׂ֤ה יָדָיו֙ בֵּרַ֔כְתָּ וּמִקְנֵ֖הוּ פָּרַ֥ץ בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* ? not you have.you.put.a.hedge behind him and behind house his and behind all that \[belongs\].to him from round.about the.work his.hands his you.have.blessed and livestock his it.has.spread.out in the land

*JPS 1917:* Hast not Thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions are increased in the land.

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