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title: שְׁחִין — boil · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁחִין (7822), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: boil. BDB 1906: n.m. boil eruption. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁחִין

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«שְׁחִין» in the Tanakh dictionary: **boil** — 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:** 13 times · **Key:** 7822 · **BDB:** שְׁחִין²

### Glosses

boil\[s\] (6); boil (3); the.boil (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

boil [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7822/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. boil eruption [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7822/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. boil, coll. eruption;—on man 2 K 20:7 = Is 38:21, שׁ׳ רָ֑ע Dt 28:35; Jb 2:7; possibly leprous Lv 13:18, 19, 20, צָרֶ֫בֶת הַשּׁ׳ 13:23 (v. צ׳; all P), in Egypt, on man and beast Ex 9:9, 10, 11(×2) (all P), cstr. שְׁחִין מִצְרַיִם Dt 28:27.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁחִין» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7822/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 13:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.18/)

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וּבָשָׂ֕ר כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה בֽוֹ־בְעֹר֖וֹ שְׁחִ֑ין וְנִרְפָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and flesh (dm) it.will.be on it on skin its a.boil and it.will.be.healed

*JPS 1917:* And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,

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[Isaiah 38:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.21/)

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ יִשְׂא֖וּ דְּבֶ֣לֶת תְּאֵנִ֑ים וְיִמְרְח֥וּ עַֽל־הַשְּׁחִ֖ין וְיֶֽחִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Isaiah let.them.take a.cake of.figs and let.them.rub.\[it\] on the boil so that.he.may.live

*JPS 1917:* And Isaiah said: 'Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.'

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