שָׁתַן

Biblical Hebrew

urinate — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

urinate tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁתַן: vb. urinate tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. urinate (secondary √ from above);—Pt. מַשְׁתִּין בְּקִיר (i.e. a male person) 1 S 25:22, 34; 1 K 14:10; 16:11; 21:21; 2 K 9:8 (all of exterminating a family).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: [one who] urinates (6).

In the verses

2 Kings 9:8 · tree →

וְאָבַ֖ד כָּל־בֵּ֣ית אַחְאָ֑ב וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י לְאַחְאָב֙ מַשְׁתִּ֣ין בְּקִ֔יר וְעָצ֥וּר וְעָז֖וּב בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Word for word: and it.will.perish all the.house of.Ahab and I.will.cut.off to Ahab [one.who].urinates on a.wall and shut.up and freed in Israel

JPS 1917: For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.

1 Samuel 25:22 · tree →

כֹּה־יַעֲשֶׂ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים לְאֹיְבֵ֥י דָוִ֖ד וְכֹ֣ה יֹסִ֑יף אִם־אַשְׁאִ֧יר מִכָּל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֛וֹ עַד־הַבֹּ֖קֶר מַשְׁתִּ֥ין בְּקִֽיר׃

Word for word: thus may.he.do God to the.enemies David and thus may.he.add if I.will.leave from all that [belongs].to him until the morning [one.who].urinates on a.wall

JPS 1917: God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one male.' —

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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