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title: שֶׂכְוִי — appearance · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֶׂכְוִי (7907), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: appearance. BDB 1906: appearance, phenomenon. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֶׂכְוִי

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«שֶׂכְוִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **appearance** — 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:** 7907 · **BDB:** שֶׂכְוִי

### Glosses

heart (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

appearance [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7907/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

appearance, phenomenon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7907/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] perhaps a celestial appearance, phenomenon (Rabb. Thes mind; De(afterTalm.) cock (cf. NH שֶׂכְוִי cock, שֶׂכְוְיָה hen, foreign words acc. Dalm), Di ‘Wolkengebilde’);—abs. שׂ׳ perhaps of clouds (cf. ‖ טֻחוֹת) Jb 38:36 (RVm meteor).

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֶׂכְוִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7907/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.36/)

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מִי־שָׁ֭ת בַּטֻּח֣וֹת חָכְמָ֑ה א֤וֹ מִֽי־נָתַ֖ן לַשֶּׂ֣כְוִי בִינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* who? has.he.put in the.inner parts wisdom or who? has.he.given to the heart understanding

*JPS 1917:* Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind?

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