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title: שִׂיד — lime · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׂיד (7875), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: lime. BDB 1906: lime, whitewash. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׂיד

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«שִׂיד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lime** — 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:** 7875 · **BDB:** שִׂיד

### Glosses

lime (3); of.lime (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lime [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7875/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

lime, whitewash [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7875/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] lime, whitewash;—always שׂ׳;—lime, produced by burning bones Am 2:1, in sim. Is 33:12; as whitewash Dt 27:2, 4.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׂיד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7875/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 33:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.12/)

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וְהָי֥וּ עַמִּ֖ים מִשְׂרְפ֣וֹת שִׂ֑יד קוֹצִ֥ים כְּסוּחִ֖ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יִצַּֽתּוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.will.be peoples burnings of.lime thorns cut.down with (the) fire they.will.be.kindled

*JPS 1917:* And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

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[Amos 2:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.1/)

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כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה עַל־שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ פִּשְׁעֵ֣י מוֹאָ֔ב וְעַל־אַרְבָּעָ֖ה לֹ֣א אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ עַל־שָׂרְפ֛וֹ עַצְמ֥וֹת מֶֽלֶךְ־אֱד֖וֹם לַשִּֽׂיד׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Yahweh on three (the).transgressions of.Moab and on four not I will.revoke.it because burned he the.bones of.the.king of.Edom into (the) lime

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

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