סוּת
to entice
‘to entice’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 9 distinct
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 4 times (22%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 4 times (22%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 2 times (11%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (11%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (11%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Jussive, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 1 time (6%)
+1 more form (1 occurrence)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 18 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5496 appears — 18 distinct verses across 12 books. 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.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 1 verse
Judges 1 verse
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 18:2 וַ/יְסִיתֵ֕/הוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms After certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up [with him] to Ramoth-gilead.
- 2 Chronicles 18:31 וַ/יְסִיתֵ֥/ם conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.
- 2 Chronicles 32:11 מַסִּ֣ית Hiphil ptcp.act ms Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- 2 Chronicles 32:15 יַסִּ֨ית Hiphil juss 3ms Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe you him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?
Job 3 verses
- Job 2:3 וַ/תְּסִיתֵ֥/נִי conj + Hiphil wimpf 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
- Job 36:16 הֲסִיתְ/ךָ֨ Hiphil pf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, Into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
- Job 36:18 יְסִֽיתְ/ךָ֣ Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms Don't let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 38:22 הִסִּית֜וּ/ךָ Hiphil pf 3cp + sfx pers 2ms behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.
- Jeremiah 43:3 מַסִּ֥ית Hiphil ptcp.act ms but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
סות (çûwth) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to entice.” Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 18 verses — uncommon. It first appears in Deuteronomy 13:6. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5496 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,612
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,612 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 18 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 4 verses 22%
- Job 3 verses 17%
- Jeremiah 2 verses 11%
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 18 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 9 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 44%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 6%
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: Persuade 2×, She moved 2×
- American Standard Version: Persuade 2×, She came unto him 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Urged him 3×, Incited 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He incited 2×, She persuaded him 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5496 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5496 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5496 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5496 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses 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.
- to incite, allure, instigate, entice
(Hiphil)
- to incite (to a request)
- to allure, lure
- to instigate (bad sense)
Word origin
[ סוּת ] vb. Hiph. incite, allure, instigate
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שית (shayith) (H7898) — thorn bushes.
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.
*סוּת
- , v. מַסְוֶה) dress, cloak. Kel. XVI, 7 עושה ס׳ ed. Dehr. (oth. ed. סְוָתוֹת or סוּתוֹת pl.), v. אִמּוּם. [Var. in Mish. ed. סיאגוס, prob. meant for סָאגוֹס = סָגוֹס, as a gloss to our w.; R. S. to Kel. l. c. שיאגות, Var. סבאות; Hai G. סאיכות, Var. סְיָאוֹת.]
סוּת
- , Hif. הֵסִית, v. יָסַת.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms H5496 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יַסִּ֨ית | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Isaiah 36:18 | 2 |
| וַ/תְּסִיתֵ֨/הוּ֙ | Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Joshua 15:18 | 2 |
| הֱסִֽיתְ/ךָ֥ | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | 1 Samuel 26:19 | 1 |
| הֲסִיתְ/ךָ֨ | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Job 36:16 | 1 |
| הִסִּית֜וּ/ךָ | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | Jeremiah 38:22 | 1 |
| הֵסַ֥תָּה | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | 1 Kings 21:25 | 1 |
| וַ/יְסִיתֵ֕/הוּ | Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | 2 Chronicles 18:2 | 1 |
| וַ/יְסִיתֵ֥/ם | Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | 2 Chronicles 18:31 | 1 |
| וַ/יָּ֨סֶת | Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | 2 Samuel 24:1 | 1 |
| וַ/יָּ֨סֶת֙ | Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | 1 Chronicles 21:1 | 1 |
| וַ/תְּסִיתֵ֥/נִי | Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Job 2:3 | 1 |
| יְסִֽיתְ/ךָ֡ | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Deuteronomy 13:6 | 1 |
| יְסִֽיתְ/ךָ֣ | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Job 36:18 | 1 |
| יַסִּ֤ית | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | 2 Kings 18:32 | 1 |
| מַסִּ֣ית | Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 32:11 | 1 |
| מַסִּ֥ית | Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 43:3 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 18 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 18 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Deuteronomy 13:6
- Joshua 15:18
- Judges 1:14
- 1 Samuel 26:19
- 2 Samuel 24:1
- 1 Kings 21:25
- 2 Kings 18:32
- 1 Chronicles 21:1
- 2 Chronicles 18:2
- Job 2:3
- Isaiah 36:18
- Jeremiah 38:22
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
