משוט
oar
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where H4880 appears in the Absolute state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
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משוט — transliterated mâshôwṭ — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “oar.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezekiel (100% of all occurrences). Debuting at Ezekiel 27:6, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come שוט, שוט and שיט. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4880 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Oar 1×, Oars 1×
- American Standard Version: Oar 1×, Oars 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Oars 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Oars 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4880 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4880 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4880 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4880 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- oar
Word origin
n.[m.] oar;—תֹּפְשֵׂי מ׳ Ez 27:29.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שוט (shûwṭ) (H7751) — to go about.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מָשֹׁוט
- oar. Zab. IV, 3.—Pl. מְשֹׁוטִין. B. Bath. 73ᵃ ed. (Mss. מְשֹׁוטוֹת, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).
מָשֹׁוט ²
- 1. same. Targ. Ez. XXVII, 29.—Pl. מְשֹׁוטִין. Ib. 6.
- 2. light ship.—Pl. as ab. Targ. Is. XLIII, 14 (h. text רִיחִים!).
שׁוּט I
- (b. h.) [to swing, be light, move to and fro; v. שׁוֹט II,] to roam, fly, float, swim. M. Kat. 14ᵃ לָשׁוּט if he goes abroad to roam (for mere pleasure), opp. למזונות for support, להרויחא for profit in business. B. Bath. 15ᵇ (Satan says) שַׁטְתִּי בכל וכ׳ I roamed all over the world, but have found none so faithful as &c. Bets. V, 2 (36ᵇ) לא שָׁטִין על פני המים you must not float on the water (swim on the Sabbath). Y. Shek. VI, 50ᵃ top (ref. to Ez. XLVII, 5) כי גאו המים מי שחו מִלָּשׁוּט (omit מהו מי שחו, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l., p. 55) the waters were risen … too high for swimming; a. e.—[Y. B. Mets. VIII, end, 11ᵈ בששטן, read: בששטפן, v. שָׁטַף.] e.g. Ezekiel 47:5
- same. Yalk. Gen. 101 עד שהיתה קומתו מְשׁוֹטֶטֶת בדמעות until his body swam in tears.
- to cause to swim, teach swimming. Kidd. 30ᵇ אף לַהֲשִׁיטוֹ בנהר a father is also bound to have his son taught swimming; Tosef. ib. I, 11; Koh. R. to IX, 9 להושיטו (corr. acc.).
שׁוּט
- , to roam, fly, swim, row. Targ. Lam. III, 54 (h. text צפו); a. e.—Part. שָׁיט, שָׁיֵיט; f. שָׁיְיטָא; pl. שָׁיְיטִין; שָׁיְיטָן. Targ. O. Num. XI, 8 שָׁיְטִין (ed. Berl. נפקין). Targ. Jon. I, 13; a. e.—B. Kam. 83ᵃ מֵישַׁט שייטא טובא וכ׳ (a dove) flies (for exercise) farther out, but fills her belly within fifty cubits (from the dove-cote). Ib. ומישט שלשים וכ׳ for exercise do they fly thirty Rises only and no more? Sot. 48ᵇ (transl. Deut. I, 44) כמא דנתזין דבריאתא ושייטן ברומי וכ׳ as bees rush forth and fly about on the heights of the world, and bring honey from the herbs of the mountains; a. e. e.g. Deuteronomy 1:44
- (with עינא) to look up and down. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XXII, 10.
שׁוּט II
- [to make light of (cmp. קָלַל,] to despise, reject. Tanḥ. Sh’moth 1 ושָׁט את הבכורה and despised the birthright; (Ex. R. s. 1 וביזה).
שׁוּט ²
- Targ. Gen. XXV, 34. Targ. I Sam. X, 27. Ib. XVII, 42 שַׁטְיֵה (fr. שטי). Targ. Prov. I, 25 ושַׁטְתּוּן Ms. (ed. ושניתון); a. fr.—Part. שָׁט, שָׁאֵט, שָׁיֵיט, שָׁיֵט; f. שָׁיְיטָא; pl. שָׁיְיטִין. Ib. XI, 12. Ib. XXIII, 9 (ed. Wil. שְׁיֵט, corr. acc.). Ib. I, 7; a. fr.—Part. pass. שִׁיט, שָׁט. Targ. I Kings XVI, 31 (h. text נקל). Targ. I Sam. XV, 9 (h. text נמבזה). Targ. Ps. XV, 4 (h. text נבזה); a. fr.
- same. Targ. II Sam. XII, 10. Targ. Prov. XV, 20. Ib. XIX, 16 (ed. Lag. מוֹשִׁיט, cmp. מוקים fr. קום); a. e.
- to be despised. Targ. I Sam. II, 30 יִתְשָׁטוּן (ed. Lag. יִשְׁתָּטוּן, Var. ישטתון, prob. meant for יתשט׳; h. text יקלו).
*שׁוּט III
- (v.שׁוּט I) [to move in all directions,] to strike, smear over, polish with a fatty substance. Pes. 30ᵇ אין שָׁטִין … ואם שָׁט Ar. a. Ms. M. 2 (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 7; ed. טָשִׁין … טָשׁ), v. טוּשׁ I; Zeb. 95ᵇ Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note). Bets. 34ᵃ Ar. (ed. טשין).
שׁוּט ³
- Targ. Y. I Deut. XXVIII, 40 תשוטון (Ar. תטושון).
שׁוֹט
- Shoṭ-Mishoṭ, Samosata, one of the fords of the Euphrates (v. Neub. Géogr. p. 331, a. Sm. Dict. of Gr. a. Rom. Geogr. s. v. Euphrates). Kidd. 72ᵃ ש׳ מ׳ בין וכ׳ Samosata is situated between the rivers (Euphrates and Tigris).
שׁוֹט II
- rod, scourge. Mekh. B’shall., Amalek, s. 2 כך מדה … ש׳ שישראל לוקין וכ׳ such is the rule going through all generations, the scourge (nation) with which the Israelites are smitten, will finally be smitten; Yalk. Ex. 265.
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Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H4880 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִשּׁוֹטָ֑יִ/ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 27:6 | 1 |
| מָשׁ֔וֹט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 27:29 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4880, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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