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title: שְׁקַעֲרוּרָה — depression · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁקַעֲרוּרָה (8258), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: depression. BDB 1906: n.f. depression, hollow. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁקַעֲרוּרָה

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«שְׁקַעֲרוּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **depression** — 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:** 8258 · **BDB:** שְׁקַעֲרוּרָה

### Glosses

depressions (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

depression [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8258/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. depression, hollow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8258/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. depression, hollow (on format. v. Ges§ 55 i);—pl. שְׁקַעֲרוּרֹת Lv 14:37 in wall.

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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 (2 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 «שְׁקַעֲרוּרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8258/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 14:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.14.37/)

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וְרָאָ֣ה אֶת־הַנֶּ֗גַע וְהִנֵּ֤ה הַנֶּ֙גַע֙ בְּקִירֹ֣ת הַבַּ֔יִת שְׁקַֽעֲרוּרֹת֙ יְרַקְרַקֹּ֔ת א֖וֹ אֲדַמְדַּמֹּ֑ת וּמַרְאֵיהֶ֥ן שָׁפָ֖ל מִן־הַקִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.see (et) the plague and there! the plague \[is\].in the.walls of the.house depressions greenish or reddish and appearance their \[is\].deep more.than the wall

*JPS 1917:* And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;

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