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title: שָׂרֹק — sorrel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׂרֹק (8320), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sorrel. BDB 1906: adj. sorrel. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׂרֹק

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«שָׂרֹק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sorrel** — 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:** 8320 · **BDB:** שָׂרֹק

### Glosses

sorrel (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sorrel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8320/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. sorrel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8320/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. perhaps sorrel (? from II. שׂ׳, or cf. أَشْقَرُ having ruddy tinge over white, of horses sorrel Lane1681);—pl. אֲדֻמִּים שְׂרֻקִּים וּלְבָנִים Zc 1:8, of horses.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׂרֹק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8320/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zechariah 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.1.8/)

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רָאִ֣יתִי ׀ הַלַּ֗יְלָה וְהִנֵּה־אִישׁ֙ רֹכֵב֙ עַל־ס֣וּס אָדֹ֔ם וְה֣וּא עֹמֵ֔ד בֵּ֥ין הַהֲדַסִּ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּמְּצֻלָ֑ה וְאַחֲרָיו֙ סוּסִ֣ים אֲדֻמִּ֔ים שְׂרֻקִּ֖ים וּלְבָנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I.saw the night and there! a.man \[was\].riding on a.horse red and he \[was\].standing between the.myrtle trees which \[were\].in the hollow and.\[were\] behind him horses red sorrel and white

*JPS 1917:* I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.

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