Swimming
שָׂחוּStrong’s H7813sachu (sa-chu)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sachu is the Hebrew word usually translated “swimming”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.”
Meaning
- Swimming
How it's translated
- swimming 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂחוּ sachu · swimming
swimming
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “swimming” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWIM'MING, participle present
tense Floating on a fluid; moving on a fluid; having a waving or reeling motion; overflowing; abounding.
All definitions and other forms of “swimming”
SWIM'MING, noun
The act or art of moving on the water by means of the limbs; a floating.
- Dizziness.
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.