שׁוּק
to overflow
‘to overflow’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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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”).
- Polel
- A stem of hollow/geminate roots functioning like the Piel — intensive active.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 2 times (67%)
- Verb, Polel, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7783 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 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.
Psalms 1 verse
Joel 2 verses
- Joel 2:24 וְ/הֵשִׁ֥יקוּ conj + Hiphil pf 3cp The threshing floors will be full of wheat, And the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
- Joel 3:13 הֵשִׁ֨יקוּ֙ Hiphil pf 3cp Put in the sickle; For the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."
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.
שוק — transliterated shûwq — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to overflow.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Joel (67% of all occurrences). It first appears in Psalms 65:9. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7783 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
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: Overflow 1×, Shall overflow 1×, Waterest 1×
- American Standard Version: Overflow 1×, Shall overflow 1×, Waterest 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Overflow 1×, Water it 1×, Will overflow 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 1×, Overflow 1×, Saturate it 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7783 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7783 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7783 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7783 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses one or more reduplicated stems (the Pōlēl/Pilpēl type), which for hollow or geminate roots behave much like Piel — often intensive or iterative.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Pō‛l
- . thou hast visited the earth and given it abundance
Hiphil
- . the vats overflow with must
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
[ שׁוּק ] vb. prob. be abundant
— 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.
שוק
- , Targ. Ps. LXXIV, 3 משווק, משוק, v. שְׁוַוח II
שׁוּק I
- Polel; cmp. נשק) to touch, join, come in contact; (cmp. חפץ) to desire.—Denom. תְּשׁוּקָה.
- , Nithpol. נִשְׁתֹּוקֵק (denom. of תשוקה = התשוקק) to long for (with על). Yeb. 62ᵇ (ref. to תשוקתך, Gen. III, 16) האשה מִשְׁתֹּוקֶקֶת על וכ׳ the wife has a desire for her husband when he is about to go on the road; Erub. 100ᵇ; Yalk. Gen. 32. Keth. 65ᵃ (ref. to שקויי, Hos. II, 7) דברים … משתוקקת עליהן וכ׳ things which a woman longs for: jewelry. Num. R. s. 10, beg. (ref. to שוקיו, Cant. V, 15) זה העולם שנ׳ הקב"ה וכ׳ that means the world, which the Lord has been longing to create; a. e. e.g. Genesis 3:16
שׁוּק II
- (preced.) = תְּשׁוּקָה, desire, longing. Cant. R. to VII, 11 (ref. to תשוקתו, ib.) שלשה שוקין הן אין שׁוּקָן של ישראל וכ׳ there are three kinds of desires: Israel longs for none but for his father in heaven; אין שׁוּקָהּ של אשה וכ׳ woman’s desire is for her husband; אין שׁוּקוֹ של יצר וכ׳ the evil temptation longs for Cain and the like of him; אין שׁוּקָן של גשמים וכ׳ the rains desire the earth (ref. to ותשקקה, Ps. LXV, 10); v. תְּשׁוּקָה. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXVII (expl. ותשקקה, v. supra) תן לה שׁוּקָהּ ed. Bub. (oth. ed. תשוקתה) grant to her that for which she (the earth) longs.—Pl. שׁוּקִין, v. supra. e.g. Psalms 65:10
שׁוּק III
- v. שׁוּק I) [meeting place,] market, street. Gen. R. s. 91 ש׳ של זונות the place where harlots meet. Pes. 110ᵃ בזמן שלא ראה פני הש׳ if he has not seen the open, i.e. if he has not been in the open air between one cup and the other. B. Kam. 115ᵃ תקנת הש׳ the market ordinance (that he who buys a stolen object publicly has a right to his purchasing money on restoring the object). Yeb. 53ᵃ התרת יבמה לש׳ making a y’bamah permitted to all the world, i.e. freeing a woman from her dependence on her brother-in-law. Ib. 98ᵇ פגע ביבמה לש׳ he might (on marrying her) strike on a ‘y’bamah abroad’, i.e. on one bound to another man as her yabam; a. v. fr.—Num. R. s. 2018, a. e. בעל הש׳ market commissioner.—Pl. שְׁוָוקִים, שְׁוָוקִין, שְׁוָקִ׳. Ib.17 (expl. קרית חצות, Num. XXII, 39) שעשה ש׳ של וכ׳ he arranged commercial markets. Sabb. 33ᵇ תקנו ש׳ וכ׳ they (the Romans in Palestine) made markets to place harlots there; Ab. Zar. 2ᵇ. Tosef. Makhsh. III, 8 הבאין מבית הש׳ that are brought back from the market houses; a. fr.—Constr. שׁוּקֵי. Erub. 29ᵃ, a. e. הריני … בש׳ טבריא I am (to-day) as bright as Ben ʿAzzai was in the meeting places of Tiberias; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 22:39
שׁוֹק
- v. שׁוּק I) [joint,] leg, foreleg, shoulder. Ber. 24ᵃ ש׳ באשה ערוה a woman’s bare leg is an indecent sight, i.e. you are not permitted to say your prayers in sight of it. Ḥull. X, 1 חייבין בחזה ובש׳ are subject to the law relating to breast and shoulder (Lev. VII, 34). Men. V, 6; a. fr.—Du. שׁוֹקַיִם. Gen. R. s. 98 שׁוֹקֵיהֶן, v. פָּחָז. e.g. Leviticus 7:34
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 3 distinct written forms H7783 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֵשִׁ֨יקוּ֙ | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | Joel 3:13 | 1 |
| וְ/הֵשִׁ֥יקוּ | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | Joel 2:24 | 1 |
| וַ/תְּשֹׁ֪קְקֶ֡/הָ | Verb, Polel, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 65:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7783, 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.
Derived from this word
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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 3 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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