סוּתçûwth

incite, allure, instigate

Pronunciation: sooth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5496

Meanings

Hiph`il

1.

a. incite (Judges 1:14; Joshua 15:18)

b. allure (2 Chronicles 18:31; Job 36:16; Job 36:18)

2. instigate, in bad sense (1 Samuel 26:19; 2 Samuel 24:1; Jeremiah 43:3)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 18 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 13:6 “Suppose someone secretly entices you—even your brother, your son or daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend—and says, ‘Let us go worship other gods’—gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known.
  • Joshua 15:18 When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What’s the matter?”
  • Judges 1:14 When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What’s the matter?”
  • 1 Samuel 26:19 But now let my lord the king listen to his servant. If the Lord has stirred you up against me, then let him accept my offering. But if this is simply a human scheme, then may those involved be cursed by the Lord. For they have driven me from my home, so I can no longer live among the Lord’s people, and they have said, ‘Go, worship pagan gods.’
  • 2 Samuel 24:1 Once again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and he caused David to harm them by taking a census. “Go and count the people of Israel and Judah,” the Lord told him.
  • 1 Kings 21:25 (No one else so completely sold himself to what was evil in the Lord’s sight as Ahab did under the influence of his wife Jezebel.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).