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title: שִׁכֻּלִים — bereavement · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁכֻּלִים (7923), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bereavement. BDB 1906: pl. abstr. bereavement, childlessness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁכֻּלִים

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«שִׁכֻּלִים» 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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7923 · **BDB:** שִׁכֻּלִים

### Glosses

your.bereavement(s) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bereavement [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7923/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pl. abstr. bereavement, childlessness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7923/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. pl. abstr. bereavement, childlessness;—בְּנֵי שִׁכֻּלָ֑יִךְ Is 49:20 i.e. sons of thee, the bereaved.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׁכֻּלִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7923/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 49:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.20/)

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ע֚וֹד יֹאמְר֣וּ בְאָזְנַ֔יִךְ בְּנֵ֖י שִׁכֻּלָ֑יִךְ צַר־לִ֥י הַמָּק֖וֹם גְּשָׁה־לִּ֥י וְאֵשֵֽׁבָה׃

*Word for word:* yet they.will.say in ears your the.children your.bereavement(s) your it.is.cramped for me the place draw near for me so that.I.may.dwell

*JPS 1917:* The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears: 'The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.'

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