שׁוּטshûwṭ

go or rove about

Pronunciation: shoot · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7751

Meanings

Qal: go or rove about (Numbers 11:8; 2 Samuel 24:8; 2 Samuel 24:2)

>Po`l.: go eagerly, quickly, to and fro (Amos 8:12; Daniel 12:4; Jeremiah 5:1)

Hithpo`lel: run to and fro. (Jeremiah 49:3)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 11:8 The people would go out and gather it from the ground. They made flour by grinding it with hand mills or pounding it in mortars. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into flat cakes. These cakes tasted like pastries baked with olive oil.
  • 2 Samuel 24:2 So the king said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Take a census of all the tribes of Israel—from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south—so I may know how many people there are.”
  • 2 Samuel 24:8 Having gone through the entire land for nine months and twenty days, they returned to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chronicles 16:9 The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. What a fool you have been! From now on you will be at war.”
  • Job 1:7 “Where have you come from?” the Lord asked Satan. Satan answered the Lord, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.”
  • Job 2:2 “Where have you come from?” the Lord asked Satan. Satan answered the Lord, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.”
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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).