שָׁתַת
to set
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.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H8371 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.
Psalms 2 verses
- Psalms 49:14 שַׁתּוּ֮ Qal pf 3cp They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, Far from their mansion.
- Psalms 73:9 שַׁתּ֣וּ Qal pf 3cp They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
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 verb שתת centers on the idea of “to set.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Psalms (100%). Debuting at Psalms 49:14, it then recurs through the corpus. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8371 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
- Psalms 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: They are laid 1×, They set 1×
- American Standard Version: They are appointed 1×, They have set 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: They are destined 1×, They set 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Them 1×, They appoint 1×, They set 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8371 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8371 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8371 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8371 across 3 tagged occurrences — 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.
- (Qal) to set, appoint
Word origin
[ שָׁתַת ] vb. set, appoint (poet.)
— 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.
שַׂתָּת
- , v. סַתָּת
שָׁתַת I
- (cmp. שָׁתָה I) to come down slowly, flow gently. Ker. 22ᵃ מפני שהוא שׁוֹתֵת because it (the last blood, תַּמְצִית) flows gently, opp. מקלח. Ḥull. 38ᵃ בשׁוֹתֶתֶת when the animal discharges excrements in a lax manner, opp. מתרזת. Ohol. III, 5 השותת blood that flows gently, opp. המנטף, that drips. Ib.; Tosef. ib. IV, 11, v. צָלַב. Bekh. 44ᵇ בשותת when he discharges urine laxly; a. e.—Num. R. s. 19, beg. מפני מה … ולשונך שותת why dost thou go about with thy tongue slavering?; Koh. R. to X, 11.
שָׁתַת II
- (v.שָׁתַה II) to lay the foundation of, start.
- same. Midr. Till. to Ps. XI, 3 אם הצדיקים שהִשְׁתִּיתוּ עולמך וכ׳, v. פָּגַר
- to be founded. Ib. אם אבן שתיה שממנה ה׳ העולם וכ׳ if the wicked come and destroy the foundation stone (v. שְׁתִיָּה II) from which the world was started &c. Lev. R. s. 20; Yoma 54ᵇ, v. שְׁתִיָּה II; a. e.
- same. Snh. 26ᵇ (play on תוש̇יה, Is. XXVIII, 29, as a name of the Torah) דברים של ת̇והו שהעולם מְשׁוֹּתָּת עליהן mere words, and yet the world is built upon them; Yalk. Ps. 653 שׁוּתָּת. e.g. Isaiah 28:29
- same. Tanḥ. K’doshim 10; Tosef. Yoma III (II), 6 (ed. Zuck. נִשְׁתָּה, v. שָׁתָה II).
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 H8371 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שַׁתּ֣וּ | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | Psalms 73:9 | 1 |
| שַׁתּוּ֮ | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | Psalms 49:14 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist 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.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
