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Jeremiah 5:8
“They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
סוּסçûwç · soos
H5483 · Hebrew
H5483 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
- Derivation
- or סֻס; from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy);
- KJV renderings
- crane, horse (-back, -hoof). Compare H6571 (פָּרָשׁ).
- Grammar
- סוּסִ֥ים — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 141 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 47:17Genesis 49:17Exodus 9:3Exodus 14:9Exodus 14:23
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read סוּס here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.