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שָׁבַח

to praise

‘to praise’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

H7623 Strong's Hebrew
shâbach Transliteration
/shaw-bakh'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 11 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.

Stem

Hithpael
The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself). Here: ‘boast of’
Piel
An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘laud’
Hiphil
The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘ob. Mass error for Pi.’

Form

Infinitive Construct
A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Infinitive Absolute
An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
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”).
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Imperative
A direct command (“write!”).

State

Absolute
The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.

Person

1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).
2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).
3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).

Gender

Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.

Number

Singular
One.
Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

Grammatical forms 9 distinct

  • Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct 2 times (18%)
  • Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (18%)
  • Verb, Piel, Infinitive Absolute 1 time (9%)
  • Verb, Piel, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 time (9%)
  • Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (9%)
  • Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (9%)
  • Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (9%)
  • Verb, Piel, Imperative, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (9%)

+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 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.

Every verse where H7623 appears — 11 distinct verses across 4 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.

1 Chronicles 1 verse

Psalms 7 verses

Proverbs 1 verse

Ecclesiastes 2 verses

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