sut · incite, entice

What it means

sut (סוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “incite, entice”.

Incite: push someone to do something, especially evil; entice.

How to say it

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

1. To push or persuade someone to do something, usually evil.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• incited ×8
• incite ×3
• incites you ×2
• inciting ×2
• she urged him ×2
• he incites ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Job×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2

• Deuteronomy 13:6

  If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your bosom or your companion who is like your own soul incites you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” whom you have not known, you or your fathers,

• Joshua 15:18

  And when she came, she urged him to ask her father for the field. And she got down from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What is the matter with you?”

• Judges 1:14

  When she came, she urged him to ask her father for the field. She got down from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

• 1 Samuel 26:19

  Now please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If YHWH has incited you against me, may he smell an offering; but if it is human beings, cursed be they before YHWH, for they have driven me out today so that I may not join the inheritance of YHWH, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

• 2 Samuel 24:1

  Again the anger of YHWH burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

• 1 Kings 21:25

  Only there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what is evil in the eyes of YHWH, because Jezebel his wife incited him.

• 2 Kings 18:32

  until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees of oil and honey, so that you may live and not die.” And do not listen to Hezekiah, for he incites you, saying, “YHWH will deliver us.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:1

  Satan stood up against Israel and incited David to count Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 18:2

  At the end of some years he went down to Ahab at Samaria; and Ahab sacrificed for him sheep and goats and cattle in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and incited him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

• 2 Chronicles 18:31

  And it happened, when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “He is the king of Israel.” And they surrounded him to fight; but Jehoshaphat cried out, and YHWH helped him, and Elohim incited them to turn away from him.

• 2 Chronicles 32:11

  Is not Hezekiah inciting you to give you over to die by hunger and by thirst, saying, ‘YHWH our Elohim will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?

• 2 Chronicles 32:15

  Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you or incite you like this, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers; how much less will your Elohim deliver you from my hand!”

• Job 2:3

  YHWH said to the Satan, “Have you set your heart on my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing Elohim and turning away from evil; and he still holds fast to his integrity, though you incited me against him to swallow him up for nothing.”

• Job 36:16

  And he also incites you to come out from the mouth of distress into a broad place, with no constraint beneath it, and what is set on your table is full of fatness.

• Job 36:18

  For beware lest fury incite you with abundance, and let not the great compensation turn you aside.

• Isaiah 36:18

  Beware lest Hezekiah incite you, saying, “YHWH will deliver us.” Have the gods of the nations delivered, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?

• Jeremiah 38:22

  Look, all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah are being brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon, and they are saying, ‘They have incited you and prevailed over you, your men of peace; your feet have sunk in the mire; they have turned back.’

• Jeremiah 43:3

  but Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us, in order to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death or to carry us into exile to Babylon.”