שֵׁיזִב
to deliver
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.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- 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.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, e, Infinitive Construct 3 times (33%)
- Verb, e, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 3 times (33%)
- Verb, e, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (22%)
- Verb, e, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7804 appears — 7 distinct verses 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.
Daniel 7 verses
- Daniel 3:15 יְשֵֽׁיזְבִנְ/כ֖וֹן e impf 3ms + sfx pers 2mp Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- Daniel 3:17 לְ/שֵׁיזָבוּתַ֑/נָא יְשֵׁיזִֽב prep + e inf.cs + sfx pers 1cp e impf 3ms If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
- Daniel 3:28 וְ/שֵׁיזִ֣ב conj + e pf 3ms Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
- Daniel 6:14 לְ/שֵׁיזָבוּתֵ֑/הּ prep + e inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
- Daniel 6:16 יְשֵׁיזְבִנָּֽ/ךְ e impf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.
- Daniel 6:20 לְ/שֵׁיזָבוּתָ֖/ךְ prep + e inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?
- Daniel 6:27 מְשֵׁיזִ֣ב שֵׁיזִ֣יב e ptcp.act ms e pf 3ms He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
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.
At its core, שזב (shᵉzab) means “to deliver.” The word gravitates to Daniel (100%). It appears 7 verses across 1 book of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. First canonically at Daniel 3:15, it enters the text early. It shares a root with עזב, עזבון and עזובה. 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 H7804 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 7 verses 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 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 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: Deliver 3×, He will deliver 2×
- American Standard Version: Deliver 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Deliver you 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Deliver you 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7804 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7804 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7804 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7804 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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.
- (Peel or Peil) to deliver
Word origin
Derived from עזב (ʻâzab) (H5800) — to leave.
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.
זָב
- 1. faint. Y. Kidd. I, 61ᵃ (expl. זב, II Sam. III, 29) תָּשִׁישׁ q. v. e.g. 2 Samuel 3:29
- 2. one afflicted with gonorrhœa. Zab. I, 5 זב גמור a real zabh (subject to all the laws in Lev. XV, 1—15; 19—24). Ib. V, 6; a. v. fr.—Pl. זָבִים, זָבִין; f. זָבוֹת. Sifra Metsora, Zabim, Par. 1 מטמאים כז׳ (not בז׳) they make unclean like Israelitish zabim; Nidd. 34ᵃ שיהו כז׳ וכ׳; a. v. fr. [Sabb. 110ᵇ מזביך, v. זוֹב.]—Zabim, name of a treatise of the Mishnah a. Tosefta, and of a section of the Sifra to Metsora. e.g. Leviticus 15:1
שֵׁזֵב
- , v. sub שֵׁיז׳.
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 9 distinct written forms H7804 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/שֵׁיזִ֣ב | Verb, e, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 3:28 | 1 |
| יְשֵֽׁיזְבִנְ/כ֖וֹן | Verb, e, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 3:15 | 1 |
| יְשֵׁיזְבִנָּֽ/ךְ | Verb, e, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 6:16 | 1 |
| יְשֵׁיזִֽב | Verb, e, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 3:17 | 1 |
| לְ/שֵׁיזָבוּתֵ֑/הּ | Verb, e, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 6:14 | 1 |
| לְ/שֵׁיזָבוּתַ֑/נָא | Verb, e, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 3:17 | 1 |
| לְ/שֵׁיזָבוּתָ֖/ךְ | Verb, e, Infinitive Construct | Daniel 6:20 | 1 |
| מְשֵׁיזִ֣ב | Verb, e, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 6:27 | 1 |
| שֵׁיזִ֣יב | Verb, e, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 6:27 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7804, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 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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