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title: שׁוּק — street · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוּק (7784), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: street. 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: **street** — 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:** 7784 · **BDB:** שׁוּק

### Glosses

street (3); streets (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

street [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7784/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (√ of foll., meaning dub.; Arabic سَاقَ is drive beast, etc., carry on affairs; Ethiopic ሶቀ: sustain; cf. Arabic سَاقٌ leg, especially shank, Aramaic שׁוֹקָא leg (rare), ܫܳܩܳܐ leg, thigh; connexion dub. with Assyrian sûḳu, street, Aramaic שׁוּקָא, ܫܽܘܩܳܐ, street, market-place (whence Arabic سُوقٌ loan-word according to Frä 187; but then س = שׁ?), Palm. שוק id., Lzb 373).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 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, 1 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/1513/7784/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 7:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.8/)

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עֹבֵ֣ר בַּ֭שּׁוּק אֵ֣צֶל פִּנָּ֑הּ וְדֶ֖רֶךְ בֵּיתָ֣הּ יִצְעָֽד׃

*Word for word:* \[he.was\].passing.by in the street beside corner her and the.direction her.house her he.strode

*JPS 1917:* Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house;

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[Ecclesiastes 12:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.4/)

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וְסֻגְּר֤וּ דְלָתַ֙יִם֙ בַּשּׁ֔וּק בִּשְׁפַ֖ל ק֣וֹל הַֽטַּחֲנָ֑ה וְיָקוּם֙ לְק֣וֹל הַצִּפּ֔וֹר וְיִשַּׁ֖חוּ כָּל־בְּנ֥וֹת הַשִּֽׁיר׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.shut.up \[the\].doors on the street when becomes.low the.sound of the.grinding.mill and someone.will.arise to the.sound of.(the) bird and they.will.be.reduced all the.daughters of.(the) song

*JPS 1917:* And the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low; and one shall start up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

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