Thicket
שׂוֹבֶךְStrong’s H7730svovekh (s-vo-vekh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Svovekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “branche of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.”
Meaning
- Network (of boughs)
How it's translated
- branche of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שׂוֹבֶךְ svovekh · thicket
network (of boughs)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thicket” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THICK'ET, noun
A wood or collection of trees or shrubs closely set; as a ram caught in a thicket
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.