שׂוֹבֶךְ
network
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
- 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).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7730 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.
2 Samuel 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.
“network” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun שובך (sôwbek). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. It clusters heavily in 2 Samuel, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Found nowhere else but 2 Samuel 18:9. From the same root come סבך and שובך. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7730 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
- 2 Samuel 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: Under the thick boughs 1×
- American Standard Version: Under the thick boughs 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Thick branches 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Branches of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7730 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7730 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7730 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7730 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- network (of boughs)
Word origin
n.[m.] network of boughs;—cstr. שׂ׳ הָאֵלָה 2 S 18:9.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from סבך (çôbek) (H5441) — thicket.
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.
שׁוֹבַךְ
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Shobach, an Ammonite general. Sot. VIII, 1 בני … של ש׳ the Ammonites went into battle relying on the strength of Sh. Ib. 42ᵇ כתיב ש׳ וכתיב שופך the name is once written Shobach (II Sam. X, 16), and once Shophach (I Chr. XIX, 16); חד אמר … עשוי כשׁוֹבָךְ one authority says, his real name was Shophach, and he was called Shobach, because he was built like a dove-cote (of high stature, v. next w.), v. שָׁפַךְ. e.g. 2 Samuel 10:16
שׁוֹבָךְ
- (שבך; cmp. שְׂבָכָה) net-work, esp. (b. h. אֲרֻבָּה) dove-cote. Ex. R. s. 40 (play on ש̇ו̇ב̇ל̇, I Chr. IV, 1, sq.) ושובל שהעמיד ש̇וב̇ך̇ לאֹלהים (not ושובך) Bezalel was surnamed Shobal because he erected a dove-cote for God, זה המשכן שהיה עומד כש׳ that is the Tabernacle, which stood (high) like a dove-cote. Ib. העמיד … כש׳ the Lord had the Tabernacle put up like a dove-cote (for the dove Israel). B. Bath. II, 5 מרחיקין … מן הש׳ וכ׳ you must keep your ladder (when lopping trees &c.) four cubits away from your neighbor’s dove-cote. Ib. מרחיקין את הש׳ וֹכ׳ you must keep your dove-cotes at a distance of fifty cubits from the town. Ib. 6 הרי הוא של בעל הש׳ it belongs to the owner of the nearest dove-cote. Ib. V, 3 פירות ש׳ the crop of a dove-cote (the brood of the season); a. fr.—Pl. שׁוֹבָכוֹת, שׁוֹבָכִין. Ib. II, 6. B. Kam. 83ᵃ ישוב ש׳ a group of dove-cotes; a. e.—Pes. IV, 7 (55ᵇ) מושיבין ש׳ לתרנגולים וכ׳ (Ms. O. לתרנגולת) you may set up chicken-houses (put in eggs for brooding) on the fourteenth of Nisan; [vers. quoted in Rashi: מושיבין ש׳ ותרנגולת you may set brooding doves in cotes, and also hens]. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:1
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7730, 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 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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