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title: שָׂתַר — burst out · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׂתַר (8368), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: burst out. BDB 1906: vb.Niph. burst break out. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׂתַר

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«שָׂתַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **burst out** — 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:** 8368 · **BDB:** שָׂתַר

### Glosses

they.broke.out (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

burst out [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8368/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb.Niph. burst break out [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8368/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Niph. burst or break out, of tumours (Arabic شَتَرَ have inverted, or cracked, eyelids, or lower lips; Ethiopic ሠተረ: lacerate; Assyrian \[šatâru\] ii. tear down; Syriac ܣܬܰܪ destroy, so Sab. שתר Sab. Denkm.No. 48, 1. 2, Biblical Aramaic סְתַר Ezr 5:12);— Impf. וַיִּשָּֽׂתְרוּ לָהֶם עפלים 1 S 5:9 and tumours brake out to them.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׂתַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8368/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 5:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.9/)

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וַיְהִ֞י אַחֲרֵ֣י ׀ הֵסַ֣בּוּ אֹת֗וֹ וַתְּהִ֨י יַד־יְהוָ֤ה ׀ בָּעִיר֙ מְהוּמָה֙ גְּדוֹלָ֣ה מְאֹ֔ד וַיַּךְ֙ אֶת־אַנְשֵׁ֣י הָעִ֔יר מִקָּטֹ֖ן וְעַד־גָּד֑וֹל וַיִּשָּׂתְר֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם טְחֹרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.was after they.had.brought.round it and it.was the.hand of.Yahweh on the city panic great exceedingly and he.struck (et) the.men of the.city both young and unto the.old and they.broke.out to them tumors

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great discomfiture; and He smote the men of the city, both small and great, and emerods broke out upon them.

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