Hebrew verb · H7811
שָׂחָה
sachahsaw-khaw'
to swim
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sâchâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7811is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7811
to swim; causatively, to inundate
The King James renders it: (make to) swim.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sachah is rendered "to swim". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Psalms 6:6אַשְׂחֶ֣ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I make swim1
- the swimmer1
- to swim1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַשְׂחֶ֣ה1
- הַשֹּׂחֶ֖ה1
- לִשְׂח֑וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vqrmsa
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhi1cs
Psalms
one use
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- אַשְׂחֶ֣הʾaschehverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I make swim
Isaiah
two uses
He will spread out his hands within it, as a swimmer spreads his arms to swim. His pride will be brought low, despite the skill of his hands.
- הַשֹּׂחֶ֖הhasochehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the swimmer
- לִשְׂח֑וֹתlischotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to swim
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.