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שׂוֹבֶךְ

s.vo.vekh

thicket

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Strong’s H7730Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the branches of1

In the text

2 Samuel 18:9שׂוֹבֶךְ
Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שׂוֹבֶךְ n.[m.] network of boughs;—cstr. 2 S 18:9.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.