שְׁבַחshᵉbach
שָׂחִיף: (?) doubtful (Ezekiel 41:16)
Pronunciation: sheb-akh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7624
Meanings
ᵑ7: Pa`el: laud, praise (Daniel 5:23; Daniel 4:31; Daniel 5:4)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Daniel 2:23 I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors, for you have given me wisdom and strength. You have told me what we asked of you and revealed to us what the king demanded.”
- Daniel 4:34 “After this time had passed, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven. My sanity returned, and I praised and worshiped the Most High and honored the one who lives forever. His rule is everlasting, and his kingdom is eternal.
- Daniel 4:37 “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the King of heaven. All his acts are just and true, and he is able to humble the proud.”
- Daniel 5:4 While they drank from them they praised their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
- Daniel 5:23 For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
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).