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title: שְׁכוֹל — bereavement · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁכוֹל (7908), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: bereavement. BDB 1906: bereavement, loss of children. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁכוֹל

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«שְׁכוֹל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bereavement** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 7908 · **BDB:** שְׁכוֹל

### Glosses

childlessness (2); bereavement (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bereavement [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7908/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

bereavement, loss of children [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7908/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bereavement, loss of children;—לֹא אֵדַע שׁ׳ Is 47:8 (‖ אַלְמָנָה), cf. v 9; fig. ψ 35:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁכוֹל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7908/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 35:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.12/)

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יְשַׁלְּמ֣וּנִי רָ֭עָה תַּ֥חַת טוֹבָ֗ה שְׁכ֣וֹל לְנַפְשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* they repay.me harm in.place.of good bereavement \[belongs\].to self my

*JPS 1917:* They repay me evil for good; bereavement is come to my soul.

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[Isaiah 47:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.8/)

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וְעַתָּ֞ה שִׁמְעִי־זֹ֤את עֲדִינָה֙ הַיּוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת לָבֶ֔טַח הָאֹֽמְרָה֙ בִּלְבָ֔בָהּ אֲנִ֖י וְאַפְסִ֣י ע֑וֹד לֹ֤א אֵשֵׁב֙ אַלְמָנָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א אֵדַ֖ע שְׁכֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* and therefore listen.to this O.voluptuous.\[woman\] \[who\] dwells to security \[who\] says in heart her I and only I \[am\].yet not I.will.dwell a.widow and not I.will.know childlessness

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart: 'I am, and there is none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children';

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