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title: שִׁפְלוּת — sinking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁפְלוּת (8220), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sinking. BDB 1906: n.f. sinking. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁפְלוּת

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«שִׁפְלוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sinking** — 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:** 8220 · **BDB:** שִׁפְלוּת

### Glosses

lowering (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sinking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8220/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. sinking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8220/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sinking;—cstr. שׁ׳ יָדִים Ec 10:18 sinking of hands, negligence; (‖ עֲצַלְתַּ֫יִם).

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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 «שִׁפְלוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8220/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 10:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.18/)

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בַּעֲצַלְתַּ֖יִם יִמַּ֣ךְ הַמְּקָרֶ֑ה וּבְשִׁפְל֥וּת יָדַ֖יִם יִדְלֹ֥ף הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* in laziness(es) it.comes.low the rafter\[s\] and in lowering of.hands it.leaks the house

*JPS 1917:* By slothfulness the rafters sink in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

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