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Lexical senses and semantic domains
Sense 1: to be held, to be caught, to be fastened, to be attached, to be girded
= to be held in position firmly in a certain place
Semantic domains for this sense Hold Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000253-01Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 5 (5 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: to grasp, to take hold of (something), to seize, to catch, to hold on (to something)
= to take hold of someone or something; humans typically do this with their hands and animals use their mouths; however, it is often extended to include inanimate objects (traps), personalized qualities (wisdom), emotions (anger, fear), or processes (time)
Semantic domains for this sense Hold Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000253-02Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 42 (41 verse links; 1 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: to bolt (a door)
= to cause a door to be kept firmly locked by securing it with an iron bar
Semantic domains for this sense Hold Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000253-03Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 4: to hold on (to a type of behavior)
literally: to hold on to a quality as if it were a person; hence: = to act in accordance with a certain quality
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000253-04Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 6 (6 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 5: to acquire land
= to acquire landed property in a certain place
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000253-05Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 5 (5 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 6: to select
= to carefully choose one or more objects out of a larger group
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000253-06Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 5 (5 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 7: to cover
= put something on top of or in front of something else
Semantic domains for this sense Cover Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000253-07Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 8: skilled swordsman
literally: held by the sword; hence: = state in which warriors carry swords and have the skill to use it
Semantic domains for this sense Wise Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000253-08Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON No exact site Strong's mapping is available for this lemma. Use these links to inspect lexical identity and occurrences. Domain membership identifies related vocabulary to investigate; it does not assign a passage meaning.
Related words and biblical concepts Reviewed concept, LXX, and theological relationships are not included in this MVP. No candidate relationship is presented as established fact.
Advanced record identity Lemma ID SDBC-HEB-LEMMA-000253Page model version 1.0 Direction rtl Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
