שָׂרֹק
bay
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H8320 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.
Zechariah 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.
The Hebrew noun שרק centers on the idea of “bay.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Zechariah dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Zechariah 1:8. Related forms include שרק, משרוקי and שרוקה. 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 H8320 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
- Zechariah 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: Speckled 1×
- American Standard Version: Sorrel 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sorrel 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Reddish brown 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8320 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8320 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8320 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8320 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.
- sorrel, reddish, tawny, bay
Word origin
[ שָׂרֹק ] adj. perh. sorrel;—pl. Zc 1:8, of horses.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שרק (shâraq) (H8319) — to hiss.
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.
רִיקּוּחַ
- perfume.—Pl. רִיקּוּחִים, רִקּ. Tanḥ. Sh’moth 14, v. רִיכּוּךְ.
רַק
- , v. רָקַק, רְקַק.
רֹק
- , v. רוֹק
רַק ²
- only, except.—Pl. רַקִּין use of the word רַק. Gen. R. s. 1; Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ bot., v. אַךְ I.
רֵק
- , v. רֵיק, רֵיקָא.
שָׂרָק
- paint, v. סָרָק.
שָׁרַק
- onomatop.) to hiss, whistle; to quack. Ex. R. s. 10 צפרדע … ושָׁרְקָה להם וכ׳ there was one frog, and it quacked for them (other frogs), and they came; Snh. 67ᵇ; Yalk. Ex. 183.
שְׁרַק
- Targ. Lam. II, 15, sq. Targ. Job XXVII, 23.—Ḥull. 63ᵃ ההוא … כרבא וש׳ one (bird raḥam) sat among cabbage and whistled. Ib. יתיב אמידי ושָׁרֵיק רקרק Ar. (ed. ועביד שרקרק, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. notes 40, 50) sits on some object (not on the ground), and sings raḳraḳ; אי יתיב אערעא ושריק וכ׳ when it sits on the ground and sings, the Messiah will come; Yalk. Lev. 537.
שְׁרַק II
- = שְׁרַג, to glide, slide. Nidd. 3ᵇ מיא שָׁרְקֵי וכ׳ water (when poured out of an inclined vessel) slides, but fruits do not slide (and you must invert the vessel in order to empty it). Ḥull. 111ᵃ דמא מִשְׁרַק שָׁרֵיק (Ms. R. 2, a. Ar. משרג שריג, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 60) blood glides off, v. סְרַךְ II.
- to cause to slip, make slippery. B. Kam. 30ᵇ top תבנו … דמְשָׁרְקֵי the Mishnah speaks of straw and stubble (deposited in the public road), because they make the ground slippery.
- to slip, glide. Zeb. 62ᵃ דלא נִשְׁתָּרְקוּ (Rashi to Ex. XXVII, 5 יִשְׁתָּרְגוּ) that the priests might not slip. Ḥull. 52ᵃ כל מידי דמִישְּׁרִיק וכ׳ (some ed. דמִשְּׁ׳, Rashi דמִשְׁתְּרִיק; Ms. H. דמשתריג … לא סריג וכ׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 90) in the case of an animal falling on things which slide (e.g. a pile of peas &c.), no internal injury is to be apprehended, but if it falls on things which do not slide &c. e.g. Exodus 27:5
שְׁרַק III
- (v.סָרַק III) to paint; to paste (with red or yellow clay). Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᶜ top דשָׁרְקָא אפה who paints her face (on the Sabbath); דש׳ מעזלה who paints her yarn (to rub her face with it; v. Tosef. Sabb. IX (X), 13, quot. s. v. סָרָק). Ned. 90ᵃ top שַׁרְקֵיה טינא וכ׳ he painted the man’s face with clay (to disguise him), and brought him &c.; (Tosaf.: he smeared clay over his garments). Bets. 32ᵇ דמר שָׁרְקִין ליה תנורא וכ׳ that they smear (fill up the cracks of) the stove for you on the Holy Day.—Part. pass. שְׁרִיקָא. Ab. Zar. 31ᵃ ש׳ וחתימא pasted with clay and sealed.
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 H8320, 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
- משרוקי mashrôwqîy H4953 pipe
- שרוקה shᵉrûwqâh H8292 piping
- שרק sôrêq H8321 choice grapes
- שרקה shᵉrêqâh H8322 hissing
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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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