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title: שֹׁקֶת — watering-trough · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֹׁקֶת (8268), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: watering-trough. BDB 1906: watering trough. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֹׁקֶת

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«שֹׁקֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **watering-trough** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 8268 · **BDB:** שֹׁ֫קֶת

### Glosses

channel (1); the.watering.channels (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

watering-trough [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8268/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

watering trough [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8268/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** \[שֵׁ֫קֶת\] n. f. watering - trough (Ges§ 95 f BaZMG xii (1887), 605; Arabic سَاقِيَةٌ irrigating canal, سِقَايَةٌ watering-place, drinking vessel);—abs. הַשּׁ׳ Gn 24:20 (J); pl. cstr. שִׁקֲתוֹת הַמַּיִם 30:38 (J).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֹׁקֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8268/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 24:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.20/)

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וַתְּמַהֵ֗ר וַתְּעַ֤ר כַּדָּהּ֙ אֶל־הַשֹּׁ֔קֶת וַתָּ֥רָץ ע֛וֹד אֶֽל־הַבְּאֵ֖ר לִשְׁאֹ֑ב וַתִּשְׁאַ֖ב לְכָל־גְּמַלָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and she.hurried and she.poured.out jar her into the.watering channel and she.ran again to the well to draw.water and she.drew.water for all camels his

*JPS 1917:* And she hastened, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

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[Genesis 30:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.38/)

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וַיַּצֵּ֗ג אֶת־הַמַּקְלוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּצֵּ֔ל בָּרֳהָטִ֖ים בְּשִֽׁקֲת֣וֹת הַמָּ֑יִם אֲשֶׁר֩ תָּבֹ֨אןָ הַצֹּ֤אן לִשְׁתּוֹת֙ לְנֹ֣כַח הַצֹּ֔אן וַיֵּחַ֖מְנָה בְּבֹאָ֥ן לִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.placed (et) the branches which he.had.stripped in the.drinking troughs in the.watering.channels of.(the) water which they.came the flock to drink to the.front.of the flock and they.were.in.heat when came they to drink

*JPS 1917:* And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink.

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