To swim
שָׂחָהStrong’s H7811sachah (sa-chah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “make swim”, “swimmer” and “swim”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.”
Meaning
- To swim(Qal) swim (participle) · (Hiphil) to make to swim
How it's translated
- i make swim 1
- swimmer 1
- to swim 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂחָה sachah · to swim
1) to swim 1a) (Qal) swim (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) to make to swim
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “swim” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWIM, verb intransitive
- To float; to be supported on water or other fluid; not to sink.
- To move progressively in water by means of the motion of the hands and feet, or of fins. Isaiah 25:11
- To float; to be borne along by a current.
- To glide along with a smooth motion, or with a waving motion.
All definitions and other forms of “swim”
- To be dizzy or vertiginous; to have a waving motion of the head or a sensation of that kind, or a reeling of the body.
- To be floated; to be overflowed or drenched; as, the earth swims in rain.“All the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears” Psalms 6:6
- To overflow; to abound; to have abundance.
SWIM, verb transitive
To pass or move on; as, to swim a stream. Deer are known to swim rivers and sounds.
- To immerse in water that the lighter parts may swim; as, to swim wheat for seed.
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.