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שָׂכַל

sa.khal

to cross hands

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Strong’s H7919bVerb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

he laid cross-wise1

In the text

Genesis 48:14שִׂכֵּל
But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שָׂכַל] vb. Pi. lay crosswise;—Gn 48:14 (J)

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.