סָחַב
sachav · drag
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5498 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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sachav (סָחַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drag”.
Something along the ground, pull it. It is said of a city dragged with ropes (2 Samuel 17:13), of a corpse, or of animals dragged away.
How to say it
sa·chav
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
- Pull someone along the ground.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- they will drag them away ×2
- drag away ×1
- dragged off ×1
- we will drag ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 17:13
And if he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it to the wadi, until not even a pebble is found there.”
- Jeremiah 15:3
And I will appoint over them four kinds, declares YHWH: the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the heavens and the animals of the earth to devour and to destroy.
- Jeremiah 22:19
With the burial of a donkey he will be buried, dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
- Jeremiah 49:20
Therefore hear the counsel of YHWH which he has counseled against Edom, and his plans which he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock; surely he will make desolate their fold because of them.
- Jeremiah 50:45
Therefore hear the counsel of YHWH which he has counseled against Babylon, and his plans which he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans: surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock; surely he will make desolate their fold because of them.