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

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«שְׂבָם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shebam** — 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:שְׂבָם · **BDB:** שְׂבָם

### Glosses

Sebam (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shebam [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d1_5b8_5dd/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d1_5b8_5dd/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Nu 32:3, שִֽׂבְמָה v 38 Jos 13:19; Is 16:8, 9; Je 48:32; in Moab (Reuben), near Heshbon (cf. also Jerome Is 16:8); Σεβαμα.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׂבָם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c2_5d1_5b8_5dd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 32:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.3/)

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עֲטָר֤וֹת וְדִיבֹן֙ וְיַעְזֵ֣ר וְנִמְרָ֔ה וְחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן וְאֶלְעָלֵ֑ה וּשְׂבָ֥ם וּנְב֖וֹ וּבְעֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* Ataroth and Dibon and Jazer and Nimrah and Heshbon and Elealeh and Sebam and Nebo and Beon

*JPS 1917:* 'Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

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