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title: שִׁקּוּי — drink · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁקּוּי (8250), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: drink. BDB 1906: drink Pu. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁקּוּי

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«שִׁקּוּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drink** — 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:** 8250 · **BDB:** שִׁקּוּי

### Glosses

drinks (2); refreshment (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drink [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8250/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

drink Pu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8250/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] drink (Ba§ 102 d);—שׁ׳ לְעַצְמוֹתֶיךָ Pr 3:8 drink (fig. for refreshment) to thy bones (cf. vb. Pu.); pl. sf. שִׁקֻּוַי (Ol§ 186 b) ψ 102:10 (+ לֶחֶם v a), שִׁקּיָ֑י Ho 2:7.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 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 «שִׁקּוּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8250/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 3:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.8/)

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רִ֭פְאוּת תְּהִ֣י לְשָׁרֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝שִׁקּ֗וּי לְעַצְמוֹתֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* healing may.it.be to navel your and refreshment to bones your

*JPS 1917:* It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

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[Psalms 102:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.10/)

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כִּי־אֵ֭פֶר כַּלֶּ֣חֶם אָכָ֑לְתִּי וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י בִּבְכִ֥י מָסָֽכְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) ash\[es\] like (the) food I.have.eaten and drinks my with weeping I.have.mixed

*JPS 1917:* For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

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