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title: שַׁוְשָׁא — Shavsha · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שַׁוְשָׁא (7798), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Shavsha. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שַׁוְשָׁא

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«שַׁוְשָׁא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shavsha** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7798 · **BDB:** שַׁוְשָׁא

### Glosses

Shavsha (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shavsha [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7798/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7798/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 1 Ch 18:16, v. שְׂרָיָה.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שַׁוְשָׁא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7798/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 18:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.16/)

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וְצָד֧וֹק בֶּן־אֲחִיט֛וּב וַאֲבִימֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּן־אֶבְיָתָ֖ר כֹּהֲנִ֑ים וְשַׁוְשָׁ֖א סוֹפֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and Zadok the.son of.Ahitub and Abimelech the.son of.Abiathar \[were\].priests and Shavsha \[was\].secretary

*JPS 1917:* And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

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