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title: שָׁכָה — roaming at large · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁכָה (7904), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: roaming at large. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁכָה

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«שָׁכָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **roaming at large** — 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:** 7904 · **BDB:** שָׁכָה

### Glosses

lustful (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

roaming at large [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7904/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7904/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Pt. as adj. in סוּסִים מוּזָנִים מַשְׁכִּים הָיוּ Je 5:8 usually, horses … roaming at large they have become (cf. Ethiopic ሰኰየ: );—but meaning lustful needed; Aq Theod ἕλκοντες, Jer trahentes (sc. genitalia), i.e. משְׁכִים; read with Arnheim Du Dr מַאֲשִׁיכִים, i.e. fed stallions (lit. growing אֲשָׁכִים, Lv 21:20; cf. מַקְרִין, מַפְרִיס).

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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 (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁכָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7904/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 5:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.8/)

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סוּסִ֥ים מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים מַשְׁכִּ֣ים הָי֑וּ אִ֛ישׁ אֶל־אֵ֥שֶׁת רֵעֵ֖הוּ יִצְהָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* horses well.fed lustful they.are everyone to the.wife his.neighbor his they.neigh

*JPS 1917:* They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

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