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title: שׁוּק — be abundant · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוּק (7783), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: be abundant. BDB 1906: vb. be abundant Pōʿl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוּק

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«שׁוּק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be abundant** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 7783 · **BDB:** שׁוּק³

### Glosses

they.are.overflowing (1); they.will.overflow (1); you (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be abundant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7783/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be abundant Pōʿl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7783/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. prob. be abundant (Assyrian šûḳu, abundance);—Pōʿl. Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַתְּשֹׁקְקֶהָ ψ 65:10 thou (י׳) hast visited the earth and given it abundance (Hup Che al.; \> Vrss thought of הִשְׁקָה irrigate, so Bae EV). Pf. consec. וְהֵשִׁיקוּ הַיְקָכִים תִּירוֹשׁ Jo 2:24 the vats overflow with must, so (acc. om.) 4:13.

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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 (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁוּק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7783/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joel 2:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.24/)

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וּמָלְא֥וּ הַגֳּרָנ֖וֹת בָּ֑ר וְהֵשִׁ֥יקוּ הַיְקָבִ֖ים תִּיר֥וֹשׁ וְיִצְהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.full the.threshing floors grain and they.will.overflow the wine-vats new.wine and fresh.oil

*JPS 1917:* And the floors shall be full of corn, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

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[Joel 4:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.13/)

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שִׁלְח֣וּ מַגָּ֔ל כִּ֥י בָשַׁ֖ל קָצִ֑יר בֹּ֤אֽוּ רְדוּ֙ כִּֽי־מָ֣לְאָה גַּ֔ת הֵשִׁ֙יקוּ֙ הַיְקָבִ֔ים כִּ֥י רַבָּ֖ה רָעָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* send.out \[the\].sickle (dm) it.has.grown.ripe \[the\].harvest come tread (dm) it.is.full \[the\].winepress they.are.overflowing the wine-vats (dm) \[is\].great evil their

*JPS 1917:* Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, tread ye, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

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