שׂוֹךְ
soch · branch
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7754 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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soch (שׂוֹךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “branch”.
Of a tree. It appears only in Judges 9.
How to say it
soch
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
- Wood cut from the trees.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 9:48
Abimelech went up Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took the axes in his hand, cut down a branch of the trees, lifted it and put it on his shoulder; and he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry, do as I have done.”
- Judges 9:49
So all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech; they put them against the fortress and set the fortress on fire over them, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.