שׁוּק
street
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (75%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7784 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 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.
Proverbs 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 2 verses
- Ecclesiastes 12:4 בַּ/שּׁ֔וּק prep det + n c ms And the doors shall be shut in the street; When the sound of the grinding is low, And one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, And all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 בָ/שּׁ֖וּק prep det + n c ms Yes, they shall be afraid of heights, And terrors will be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the grasshopper shall be a burden, And desire shall fail; Because man goes to his everlasting home, And the mourners go about the streets:
Song of Solomon 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.
“street” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun שוק (shûwq). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 4 verses. It clusters heavily in Ecclesiastes, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Debuting at Proverbs 7:8, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include שוק, שוק and תשוקה. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7784 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ecclesiastes 2 verses 50%
- Proverbs 1 verse 25%
- Song of Solomon 1 verse 25%
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 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 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: Streets 3×
- American Standard Version: Street 2×, Streets 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Street 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Street 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7784 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7784 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7784 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H7784 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 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.
- street
Word origin
Derived from שוק (shûwq) (H7783) — to overflow.
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 4 distinct written forms H7784 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בָ/שּׁ֖וּק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 12:5 | 1 |
| בַּ/שּׁ֔וּק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 12:4 | 1 |
| בַּ/שְּׁוָקִים֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Song of Solomon 3:2 | 1 |
| בַּ֭/שּׁוּק | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 7:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7784, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 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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