Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8157
שֶׁסַע
shesasheh'-sah
cleft
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sheçaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8157is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8157
a fissure
The King James renders it: cleft, clovenfooted.
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
shesa is rendered "cleft". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 11:3You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.
Leviticus 11:3שֶׁ֙סַע֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a cleft of2
- and a cleft1
- of a cleft of1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- שֶׁ֙סַע֙3
- וְשֶׁ֣סַע׀1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
Leviticus
three uses
You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.
- שֶׁ֙סַע֙shesa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a cleft of
And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.
- שֶׁ֙סַע֙shesa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a cleft of
Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.
- וְשֶׁ֣סַע׀veshesa'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a cleft
Deuteronomy
one use
You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
- שֶׁ֙סַע֙shesa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of a cleft of
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.