סָמַן
to mark off
‘to mark off’ is one of 2 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
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5567 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Isaiah 1 verse
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.
“to mark off” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb סמן (çâman). It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Isaiah 28:25. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5567 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 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: Appointed 1×
- American Standard Version: Appointed 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Plots 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Appointed 1×, In 1×, Place 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5567 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5567 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5567 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5567 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 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 mark off
- (Niphal) appointed, determined (participle)
Word origin
סמן vb. whence Niph. Is 28:25 barley in an appointed place, or a determined portion
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
סָמַן
- Nif.), Pi. סִימֵּן (denom. of סִימָן) to mark. Koh. R. to XII, 10, [read:] שלש סימנים סִימַּנְתִּי לך בקבורתו וכ׳ (וסיימתי לך, being a gloss) three signs did I mark out for thee with regard to the grave of Moses; Midr. Till. to Ps. IX (not סימנתין).—Part. pass. מְסוּמָּן; pl. מְסוּמָּנִים, מְסוּמָּנִין. B. Bath. X, 7 (172ᵃ) אם היו מ׳ (Y. ed. אם היו בסימנין; Ms. M. אם היו סימנין, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) if the two persons of the same name bear also the same marks.
סְמַן
- , Pa. סַמֵּן to believe in סִימָן, be superstitious. B. Mets. 27ᵇ כיס וארנקי משום דמְסַמְּנֵי people are not likely to lend a money bag or purse, because they are superstitious about it.—Part. pass. מְסַמַּן; f. מְסַמְּנָא auspicious. Kidd. 59ᵃ ולא מס׳ מילתא and it is inauspicious (to sell the first field one has acquired).
- to be marked. Targ. Y. Num. II, 2 אתוון דמִסְתַּמְּנִין וכ׳ emblems which are marked out on &c.
סַמָּן
- , v. סַמְמָן, סַמְמָנָא.
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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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