Buttock
שֵׁתStrong’s H8357shetah (she-tah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shetah is the Hebrew word usually translated “buttocks their” and “buttock”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.”
Meaning
- Seat (of body), buttocks
How it's translated
- buttocks their 1
- buttock 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁת shetah · buttock
seat (of body), buttocks
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “buttock” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUT'TOCK, noun
The rump, or the protuberant part behind.
- The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
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.