To drag
סָחַבStrong’s H5498sachav (sa-chav)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sachav is the Hebrew word usually translated “people will drag away them”, “we will drag” and “drag away”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to drag
How it's translated
- people will drag away them 2
- and we will drag 1
- to drag away 1
- people will drag 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 4
- 2 Samuel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 15:3And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
- Jeremiah 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 49:20Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
- Jeremiah 50:45Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
Hebrew dictionary
סָחַב sachav · to drag
(Qal) to drag
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drag” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRAG, verb transitive
[G., Latin See Drink and Drench.]
- To pull; to haul; to draw along the ground by main force; applied particularly to drawing heavy things with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. John 21:8
- To break land by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; a common use of this word in New England.
- To draw along slowly or heavily; to draw any thing burdensome; as, to drag a lingering life.
- To draw along in contempt, as unworthy to be carried.
All definitions and other forms of “drag”
- To pull or haul about roughly and forcibly.
DRAG, verb intransitive
- To hang so low as to trail on the ground.
- To fish with a drag; as, they have been dragging for fish all day, with little success.
- To be drawn along; as, the anchor drags.
- To be moved slowly; to proceed heavily; as, this business drags.
- To hang or grate on the floor, as a door.
DRAG, noun
- Something to be drawn along the ground, as a net or a hook.
- A particular kind of harrow.
- A car; a low cart.
- In sea-language, a machine consisting of a sharp square frame of iron, encircled with a net, used to take the wheel off from the platform or bottom of the decks.
- Whatever is drawn; a boat in tow; whatever serves to retard a ships way.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.