סְבָךְ
sevach · thicket
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5442 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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sevach (סְבָךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thicket”.
Tangled brush.
How to say it
se·vach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A place of tangled, dense growth.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- thicket ×2
- thickets ×2
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 22:13
Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and look, a ram behind him, caught in the thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
- Psalms 74:5
They showed themselves like one who lifts up axes in a thicket of trees.
- Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours briers and thorns, and it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll up in a column of smoke.
- Isaiah 10:34
And the thickets of the forest will be cut down with iron, and Lebanon will fall by a magnificent one.