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title: שִׂיג — a moving back · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׂיג (7873), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: a moving back. BDB 1906: moving back away dross. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׂיג

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«שִׂיג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a moving back** — 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:** 7873 · **BDB:** סִיג

### Glosses

a.going.away (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

a moving back [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7873/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

moving back away dross [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7873/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] 1. a moving back or away; 2. dross (what is removed from metal);—abs. סִיג Ez 22:18 Qr (סוג Kt), שִׂיג 1 K 18:27 (שׂ for ס, but v. infr.); pl. סִיגִים (van d. H. סִגִּים) Is 1:22 + 3 times; סִגִֿים Ez 22:18 + 2 times; sf. סִינָ֑יִךָ Is 1:25;— a moving back, away: שִׂיג לוֹ 1 K 18:27 om. 𝔊L, dittogr. for שִׂיחַ Klo Bur. there is a moving back to him = he has moved back, away (proposes of temporary withdrawal, diff. from דֶּרֶךְ journey). dross, usually of silver Pr 25:4 (מִכָּ֑סֶף), 26:23 (כֶּסֶף ס׳), so (fig. of Isr.) Is 1:22 cf. v 25, Ez 22:18b (סִיגִים כֶּסֶף MT, בְּתוֹךְ כ׳ ס׳ 𝔊 Co Berthol;—Co del. ס׳, not so Berthol Toy), cf. v 18a. 19; indef. ψ 119:119.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׂיג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7873/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 18:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.27/)

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וַיְהִ֨י בַֽצָּהֳרַ֜יִם וַיְהַתֵּ֧ל בָּהֶ֣ם אֵלִיָּ֗הוּ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ קִרְא֤וּ בְקוֹל־גָּדוֹל֙ כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֣ים ה֔וּא כִּ֣י שִׂ֧יחַ וְכִֽי־שִׂ֛יג ל֖וֹ וְכִֽי־דֶ֣רֶךְ ל֑וֹ אוּלַ֛י יָשֵׁ֥ן ה֖וּא וְיִקָֽץ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was at the noontide(s) and he.mocked (in) them Elijah and he.said call.out with a.voice great (dm) \[is\].a.god he (dm) musing and (dm) a.going.away \[belongs\].to him and (dm) a.journey \[belongs\].to him perhaps \[is\].sleeping he and he.will.awake

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said: 'Cry aloud; for he is a god; either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.'

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