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title: סִירָה — turning aside · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סִירָה (lemma:סִירָה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: turning aside. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סִירָה

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«סִירָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **turning aside** — 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:** lemma:סִירָה

### Glosses

thorns (4); hooks (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

turning aside [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

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Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סִירָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5e8_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nahum 1:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.10/)

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כִּ֚י עַד־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם סְבוּאִ֑ים אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ כְּקַ֥שׁ יָבֵ֖שׁ מָלֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* (dm) to thorns entangled and like drink their drunkards they.will.be.consumed like stubble dry full

*JPS 1917:* For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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[Ecclesiastes 7:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.6/)

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כִּ֣י כְק֤וֹל הַסִּירִים֙ תַּ֣חַת הַסִּ֔יר כֵּ֖ן שְׂחֹ֣ק הַכְּסִ֑יל וְגַם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל׃

*Word for word:* (dm) like the.sound of.(the) thorns under the pot so the.laughter of the.fool and also this \[is\].futility

*JPS 1917:* For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.

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