shuk · street

What it means

shuk (שׁוּק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “street”.

A street of a city.

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. An open way between the houses of a town, where people pass.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• street ×3
• streets ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Song of Songs×1

• Proverbs 7:8

  passing through the street near her corner, and on the way to her house he marched,

• Ecclesiastes 12:4

  and the doors on the street are shut, when the sound of the mill is low, and one rises at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  also of what is high they are afraid, and terrors are in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper grows heavy, and the caper fails, because the human being is going to his eternal house, and the mourners go around in the street;

• Song of Songs 3:2

  “I will rise now and go around the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves.” I sought him but did not find him.