שַׁ֫חַץ
dignity
‘dignity’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7830 appears — 2 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.
Job 2 verses
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.
שחץ (shachats) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “dignity.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Job, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It first appears in Job 28:8. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7830 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 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: Lion's 1×, Pride 1×
- American Standard Version: Pride 1×, Proud 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Proud 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pride 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7830 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7830 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7830 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7830 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- dignity, pride
- majestic wild beasts
Word origin
n.[m.] dignity, pride;—בְנֵי־שָׁ֑חַץ i.e. majestic wild beasts Jb 28:8 (‖ שָׁ֑חַל), 41:26.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to strut
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.
שָׁחַץ
- (v. חָצַץ II)
- 1. to divide, tear. Ab. d’R. N., 2ⁿᵈ vers., ch. XLIII (ed. Schechter, p. 122) שחץ שהוא שׁוֹחֵץ בפיו the lion is called shaḥats, because he tears with his mouth; Yalk. Prov. 959 שהוא מְשַׁחֵץ בשיניו (Pi.).—2) to divide off, separate.—Part. pass. שָׁחוּץ; pl. שְׁחוּצִים, שְׁחוּצִין a) separate, proud, aristocratic. Y. Sabb. VI, 8ᵃ top והאיש … ש׳ מותר but a man is allowed (to wear those ornaments which a woman is forbidden to wear on the Sabbath), because he is not ostentatious (and will not take them off to show them), v. שַׁחֲצָנִית. Cant. R. to IV, 8 (ref. to אריות ib.) מה הארי הזה ש׳ … ש׳ וגבורים וכ׳ (strike out וגבורים) as the lion is proud (keeping for himself), so were Sihon and Og proud (selfish) … they did not come to each other’s rescue; Yalk. ib. 988 מה הארי הזה שחק (corr. acc.).—b) [that which is to be kept off, cmp. רחק,] obscene. Yalk. Is. 264 אנשי … ש׳ היו the men of Jerusalem were obscene, v. שַׁחַץ I.
- same, v. supra.
- to separate one’s self, be exclusive, lofty. Sifré Num. 131 מלכות זו מתגאה ומִשְׁתַּחַצַת וכ׳ this proud and overweening government has only four provinces worthy of an empire &c.; Yalk. Num. 771; Yalk. Deut. 809. Ab. d’R. N. l. c. [read:] שחץ שהוא מִשְׁתַּחֵץ the lion is called shaḥats, because he is proud.
שָׁחָץ
- (preced.) aristocratic, proud, vainglorious, pompous. Pesik. Par., p. 40ᵃ אית לך למימר … שהיה ש׳ will you say of that righteous man (Simeon the high priest) that he was vainglorious?; Y. Shek. IV, 48ᵃ bot. שִׁיחֵץ היה.—Pl. שְׁחָצִים. Pesik. l. c. וכולם ש׳ היו and all of them (those high priests that made such a display) were ostentatious people, v. שַׁחֲצִית. Lev. R. s. 20 ש׳ היו they (Nadab and Abihu) were aristocratic (deeming no woman noble enough for them); Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXVIII, 63 שַׁחֲצָנִין (ed. Bub. שקרנין, corr. acc.); Yalk. ib. 822 שְׁחָצִין.
שַׁחַץ I
- (v. שָׁחַץ, part. pass., part. pass.)
- 1. [separation,] obscenity, abomination, disgrace. Sabb. 62ᵇ אנשי … אנשי ש׳ היו the men of Jerusalem were lovers of obscene talk; (Yalk. Is. 264 שחוצים). Pes. 3ᵇ ש׳ פסול (they found in him) obscenity which made him unworthy of the priesthood; (Rashi: pride). Tanḥ. Vaëra 9; Ex. R. s. 8 לך ועשה מי שעשה עצמו אלוה ש׳ בעולם go and make him that made himself a god an abomination in the world; ib. וכן … נעשה ש׳ בעולם and so Sennacherib prided himself, and became an abomination &c. Ib. אני ממלא … ומראה שַׁהֲצוֹ לבריות I fill the upper and the lower regions with him (his repute), and let people see his disgrace; Tanḥ. l. c. שבחן (corr. acc.). Ib. הקב"ה מראה ש׳ וכ׳ the Lord shows all men the disgrace of the proud; a. e.—Pl. שְׁחָצִים. Ib. (ref. to Job XLI, 26 בני שחץ) אלו הגיותנין … ש׳ בעולם this means the proud that make themselves gods: the Lord makes them abominations in the world. e.g. Job 41:26
- 2. (b. h.) pride, v. supra.
שַׁחַץ II
- Job XXVIII, [tearer, or proud,] surname of lion. Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXXIX; sec. Vers., ch. XLIII (ed. Schechter); Yalk. Prov. 959, v. שָׁחַץ.
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 2 distinct written forms H7830 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁ֑חַץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 28:8 | 1 |
| שָֽׁחַץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 41:34 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7830, 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.
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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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 2 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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