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

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«סָבָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drunkards** — 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:סָבָא · **BDB:** סָבָא²

### Glosses

Sabeans (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drunkards [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5d1_5b8_5d0/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** only pl. סָבָאִים Ez 23:42 Qr =drunkards, wine-bibbers(?) so Thes al., but v. סְבָאִים.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָבָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5d1_5b8_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 23:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.42/)

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וְק֣וֹל הָמוֹן֮ שָׁלֵ֣ו בָהּ֒ וְאֶל־אֲנָשִׁים֙ מֵרֹ֣ב אָדָ֔ם מוּבָאִ֥ים סָבָאִ֖ים מִמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַֽיִּתְּנ֤וּ צְמִידִים֙ אֶל־יְדֵיהֶ֔ן וַעֲטֶ֥רֶת תִּפְאֶ֖רֶת עַל־רָאשֵׁיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] sound of.a.multitude at.ease \[was\].in her and to men of.\[the\] multitude of.humankind \[were\].brought Sabeans from.\[the\] wilderness and they.put bracelets to hands their and a.crown of.beauty on heads their

*JPS 1917:* And the voice of a multitude being at ease was therein; and for the sake of men, they were so many, brought drunken from the wilderness, they put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

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