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title: שְׂרוּג — Serug · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׂרוּג (8286), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Serug. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׂרוּג

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«שְׂרוּג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Serug** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 8286 · **BDB:** שְׂרוּג

### Glosses

Serug (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Serug [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8286/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8286/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. descendant (i.e. younger branch) of Peleg Gn 11:20, 21, 22, 23 1 Ch 1:26; Σερουχ (𝔊L Ch Σερουγ).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׂרוּג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8286/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 1:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.26/)

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שְׂר֥וּג נָח֖וֹר תָּֽרַח׃

*Word for word:* Serug Nahor Terah

*JPS 1917:* Serug, Nahor, Terah;

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[Genesis 11:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.22/)

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וַיְחִ֥י שְׂר֖וּג שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־נָחֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Serug thirty year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Nahor

*JPS 1917:* And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

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