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

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«שָׁכוּל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **childless** — 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:שָׁכוּל · **BDB:** שָׁכוּל

### Glosses

\[was\].bereaved (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

childless [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5db_5d5_5bc_5dc/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. childless [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5db_5d5_5bc_5dc/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. childless (through bereavement);—fs. שְׁכוּלָה Is 49:21 (fig. of Zion);—on form v. BaNB 47.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁכוּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5db_5d5_5bc_5dc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 49:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.21/)

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וְאָמַ֣רְתְּ בִּלְבָבֵ֗ךְ מִ֤י יָֽלַד־לִי֙ אֶת־אֵ֔לֶּה וַאֲנִ֥י שְׁכוּלָ֖ה וְגַלְמוּדָ֑ה גֹּלָ֣ה ׀ וְסוּרָ֗ה וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ מִ֣י גִדֵּ֔ל הֵ֤ן אֲנִי֙ נִשְׁאַ֣רְתִּי לְבַדִּ֔י אֵ֖לֶּה אֵיפֹ֥ה הֵֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* and you.will.say in heart your who? did.he.father for me (et) these.\[children\] and I \[was\].bereaved and barren \[I.was\].gone.into.exile and thrust.away and these.\[children\] who? did.he.bring.up here! I I.remained I alone these.\[children\] where? \[are\].they

*JPS 1917:* Then shalt thou say in thy heart: 'Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'

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