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title: שַׁיִת — thorn-bushes · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שַׁיִת (7898), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: thorn-bushes. BDB 1906: coll. thorn-bushes. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שַׁיִת

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«שַׁיִת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thorn-bushes** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 7898 · **BDB:** שַׁ֫יִת

### Glosses

bush\[es\] (7)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thorn-bushes [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7898/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

coll. thorn-bushes [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7898/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] coll. thorn-bushes (connex. with above √ dub.; DietrAbh. 73 cp. (improb.) שׁאה devastate, שְׁאִיָּה ruin, whence שׁ׳ wild, rough growth);—always c. שָׁמִיר: abs. שׁ׳ Is 7:23, 24; 9:17; 27:4 (cf. Du); שָׁ֑יִת 5:6; 7:25; sf. שִׁיתוֹ 10:17 (fig. Assyrian).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שַׁיִת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7898/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 7:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.24/)

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בַּחִצִּ֥ים וּבַקֶּ֖שֶׁת יָ֣בוֹא שָׁ֑מָּה כִּי־שָׁמִ֥יר וָשַׁ֖יִת תִּֽהְיֶ֥ה כָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* with (the) arrows and with (the) bow anyone.will.go there (to) (dm) thorn\[s\] and bush\[es\] it.will.be all the land

*JPS 1917:* With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

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[Isaiah 27:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.27.4/)

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חֵמָ֖ה אֵ֣ין לִ֑י מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֜נִי שָׁמִ֥יר שַׁ֙יִת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה אֶפְשְׂעָ֥ה בָ֖הּ אֲצִיתֶ֥נָּה יָּֽחַד׃

*Word for word:* rage there.\[is\].not to me who? will he.give.me thorn\[s\] bush\[es\] in (the) battle I.will.march against it I will.burn.it altogether

*JPS 1917:* Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame! I would with one step burn it altogether.

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