שֹׁקֶת

shoket · trough

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8268 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

shoket (שֹׁקֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “trough”.

A basin where animals drink.

How to say it

sho·ket

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. A basin from which animals drink.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • trough ×1
  • watering troughs ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 24:20

    She quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

  • Genesis 30:38

    He set the rods that he had peeled in the channels, in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink, in front of the flocks; and they mated when they came to drink.