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title: שָׁנַס — gird up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁנַס (8151), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: gird up. BDB 1906: vb. gird up. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁנַס

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«שָׁנַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gird up** — 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:** 8151 · **BDB:** שָׁנַס

### Glosses

he.girded.up (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gird up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8151/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. gird up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8151/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gird up (si vera l.; in Talm. (Aramaic) שְׁנַץ = bind sandals; NH שֶׁנֶץ thong);—Impf. 3 ms. וַיְשַׁנֵּם מָתְנָיו וַיָּ֫רָץ 1 K 18:46.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁנַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8151/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 18:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.46/)

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וְיַד־יְהוָ֗ה הָֽיְתָה֙ אֶל־אֵ֣לִיָּ֔הוּ וַיְשַׁנֵּ֖ס מָתְנָ֑יו וַיָּ֙רָץ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אַחְאָ֔ב עַד־בֹּאֲכָ֖ה יִזְרְעֶֽאלָה׃

*Word for word:* and the.hand of.Yahweh it.was to Elijah and he.girded.up loins his and he.ran before Ahab until come you to Jezreel

*JPS 1917:* And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

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