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title: שׁוּף — bruise · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוּף (7779), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: bruise. BDB 1906: vb. bruise. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוּף

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«שׁוּף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bruise** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 7779 · **BDB:** שׁוּף

### Glosses

he (2); it (1); you (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bruise [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7779/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. bruise [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7779/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bruise (NH id., Aramaic שׁוּף, שְׁפַף, ܫܳܦ rub off, away, grind (Ex 32:20 𝔗 𝔙 for טָחַן); v. especially Dr Gn; \> Di al. think ‖ form of I. שׁאף);— Impf. 3 ms. + 2 ms. הוּא יְשׁוּפְךָ רֹאשׁ וְאַתָּה תְּשׁוּפֶנּוּ עָקֵב Gn 3:15; אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָה יְשׁוּפֵנִי Jb 9:17; אַךְ חשֶׁךְ יְשׁוּפֵנִי ψ 139:11 meaning unsuitable, read perhaps c. Ew al. יְשׂוּכֵּנִי cover, screen, me.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁוּף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7779/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 9:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.17/)

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אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְהִרְבָּ֖ה פְצָעַ֣י חִנָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* who with a.storm he crushes.me and he.increases bruises my without.cause

*JPS 1917:* He that would break me with a tempest, and multiply my wounds without cause;

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[Psalms 139:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.11/)

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וָ֭אֹמַר אַךְ־חֹ֣שֶׁךְ יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְ֝לַ֗יְלָה א֣וֹר בַּעֲדֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* and I.said surely darkness it will.crush.me and \[will.be\].night \[the\].light behind me

*JPS 1917:* And if I say: 'Surely the darkness shall envelop me, and the light about me shall be night';

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