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title: שְׂכִיָּה — conspicuous · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׂכִיָּה (7914), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: conspicuous. BDB 1906: n.f. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׂכִיָּה

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«שְׂכִיָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **conspicuous** — 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:** 7914 · **BDB:** שְׂכִיָּה

### Glosses

the.ships (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

conspicuous [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7914/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7914/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. very dub., only pl. cstr. שְׂכִיּוֹת הַחֶמְדָּה Is 2:16: perhaps gen. term, 𝔙 quod visu pulchrum est, GesComm. ‘köstliche Anblicke,’ cf. De; others refer to imagery (cf. מַשְׂכִּית; as attracting the gaze) CheComm. RV Du; watchtowers (v. Aramaic) Ew Di RVm.; standards (as conspicuous) Thes; ships (id.) (Bennett \[private letter\], and now GunkSchöpfung 50 CheHpt Marti, cf. ‖ אֳנִיּוֹת; SS Bu Jb 40:31 proposes שְׂפִינֹת = ס׳ ships).

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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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׂכִיָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7914/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 2:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.16/)

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וְעַ֖ל כָּל־אֳנִיּ֣וֹת תַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ וְעַ֖ל כָּל־שְׂכִיּ֥וֹת הַחֶמְדָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and on all the.ships of.Tarshish and on all the.ships of.(the) desire

*JPS 1917:* And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery.

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