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title: סִיס — swallow · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סִיס (lemma:סִיס), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: swallow. BDB 1906: swallow swift. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סִיס

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«סִיס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **swallow** — 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:** lemma:סִיס · **BDB:** סוּס

### Glosses

a.swift (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

swallow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5e1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

swallow swift [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5e1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] swallow or swift (cypselus, TristrFFP 82 ff.) (𝔗 סוּסְיָא Is 38:14);—as twittering Is 38:14 (in sim.); 𝔊 χελιδών, 𝔙 pullus hirundinis; so Je 8:7 Kt (Qr סִיס wrongly; perhaps to distinguish from foll., so Gie), 𝔊 id., 𝔙 hirundo.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סִיס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5e1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 8:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.7/)

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גַּם־חֲסִידָ֣ה בַשָּׁמַ֗יִם יָֽדְעָה֙ מֽוֹעֲדֶ֔יהָ וְתֹ֤ר וְסִיס֙ וְעָג֔וּרשָׁמְר֖וּ אֶת־עֵ֣ת בֹּאָ֑נָה וְעַמִּ֕י לֹ֣א יָֽדְע֔וּ אֵ֖ת מִשְׁפַּ֥ט יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* also a.stork in the heavens it.knows times its.appointed and a.turtle-dove and a.swift and a.crane they.keep (et) the.time of their.coming and people my not they.know (et) the.ordinance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the ordinance of the LORD.

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