shevak · leave alone

What it means

shevak (שְׁבַק) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “leave alone”.

To leave (Aramaic): not to hinder, to leave in peace.

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. Not touch, not interfere (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• leave ×4
• be left ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra×1
• Daniel×4

• Ezra 6:7

  Leave the work of that house of Elah alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build that house of Elah on its site.

• Daniel 2:44

  And in the days of those kings the Elah of the heavens will set up a kingdom that forever will not be destroyed, and its kingdom will not be left to another people; it will crush and bring to an end all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

• Daniel 4:15

  But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals be his portion in the grass of the earth.

• Daniel 4:23

  And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’:

• Daniel 4:26

  And as for what they said, to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom for you will remain firm from the time that you know that the heavens rule.