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

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«סִפְרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **book** — 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:סִפְרָה · **BDB:** סִפְרָה

### Glosses

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### Meaning (OSHB)

book [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. book [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. book;—sf. הֲלֹא בְּסִפְרָתֶ֑ךָ ψ 56:9 (cf. סֵפֶר 3 g); del. as gloss Bi Che Hup-Now Du.—Cf. also \[סְפֹרָה\] infr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סִפְרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5e4_5b0_5e8_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 56:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.56.9/)

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נֹדִי֮ סָפַ֪רְתָּ֫ה אָ֥תָּה שִׂ֣ימָה דִמְעָתִ֣י בְנֹאדֶ֑ךָ הֲ֝לֹ֗א בְּסִפְרָתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* wandering my you.have.taken.account.of you put tear\[s\] my in skin-bottle your ? not \[is it\] in.your.scroll

*JPS 1917:* Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?

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