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title: שָׁתַן — urinate · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁתַן (lemma:שָׁתַן), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: urinate. BDB 1906: vb. urinate. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁתַן

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«שָׁתַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **urinate** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** lemma:שָׁתַן · **BDB:** שָׁתַן

### Glosses

\[one.who\].urinates (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

urinate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5ea_5b7_5df/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. urinate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5ea_5b7_5df/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. urinate (secondary √ from above);—Pt. מַשְׁתִּין בְּקִיר (i.e. a male person) 1 S 25:22, 34; 1 K 14:10; 16:11; 21:21; 2 K 9:8 (all of exterminating a family).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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 (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁתַן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5ea_5b7_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 9:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.8/)

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וְאָבַ֖ד כָּל־בֵּ֣ית אַחְאָ֑ב וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י לְאַחְאָב֙ מַשְׁתִּ֣ין בְּקִ֔יר וְעָצ֥וּר וְעָז֖וּב בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.perish all the.house of.Ahab and I.will.cut.off to Ahab \[one.who\].urinates on a.wall and shut.up and freed in Israel

*JPS 1917:* For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.

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[1 Samuel 25:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.22/)

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כֹּה־יַעֲשֶׂ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים לְאֹיְבֵ֥י דָוִ֖ד וְכֹ֣ה יֹסִ֑יף אִם־אַשְׁאִ֧יר מִכָּל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֛וֹ עַד־הַבֹּ֖קֶר מַשְׁתִּ֥ין בְּקִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* thus may.he.do God to the.enemies David and thus may.he.add if I.will.leave from all that \[belongs\].to him until the morning \[one.who\].urinates on a.wall

*JPS 1917:* God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one male.' —

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