Street
שׁוּקStrong’s H7784shuq
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shuq is the Hebrew word usually translated “street”, “on the street” and “streets”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,”
Meaning
- Street
How it's translated
- in the street 2
- on the street 1
- in the streets 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Proverbs 1
- Song of Solomon 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 12:4And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
- Ecclesiastes 12:5Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Song of Solomon 3:2I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוּק shuq · street
street
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “street” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STREET, noun
[Latin, strewed or spread. See Strew.]
- Properly, a paved way or road; but in usage, any way or road in a city, chiefly a main way, in distinction from a lane or alley.
- Among the people of New England, any public highway.
- Streets, plural, any public way, road or place.“That there be no complaining in our streets” Psalms 144:14
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.