Strong: H7811 שָׂחָה sachah - (to swim) Biblical Hebrew

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Original Word:	שָׂחָה
Transliteration:	sachah
Definition:	to swim
Part of Speech:	Verb
Phonetic Spelling:	(saw-khaw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

make to swim

A primitive root; to swim; causatively, to inundate -- (make to) swim.

Englishman's Concordance

1) to swim
1a) (Qal) swim (participle)
1b) (Hiphil) to make to swim
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2247

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שָׂחָה] verbswim (Late Hebrew סָחוּswimming; Targum סְחָא, Syriac

swim, bathe, also סָחְיָא, סַחְיָנָא, שָׂחְיָנָאswimmer; Aph`el wash); —

QalParticiple + Infinitive constructכַּאֲשֶׁר יְפָרֵשׂ הַשּׂחֶה לִשְׂחוֺתIsaiah 25:11.

Hiph`ilImperfect1singular אַשְׂחֶהPsalm 6:7I make my bed swim (with my tears; another view below שִׂיחַQal 1).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 7811. שָׂחָה (sachah) — 3 Occurrences

Psalm 6:6
HEB:יָגַ֤עְתִּי ׀ בְּֽאַנְחָתִ֗י אַשְׂחֶ֣ה בְכָל־ לַ֭יְלָה
NAS: I make my bed swim, I dissolve
KJV: make I my bed to swim; I water
INT: I am weary my sighing swim Every night

Isaiah 25:11
HEB:כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר יְפָרֵ֥שׂ הַשֹּׂחֶ֖ה לִשְׂח֑וֹת וְהִשְׁפִּיל֙
NAS: in the middle of it As a swimmer spreads
KJV: in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth
INT: after spreads A swimmer swim will lay

Isaiah 25:11
HEB:יְפָרֵ֥שׂ הַשֹּׂחֶ֖ה לִשְׂח֑וֹת וְהִשְׁפִּיל֙ גַּֽאֲוָת֔וֹ
NAS: spreads out [his hands] to swim, But [the Lord] will lay low
KJV: spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim: and he shall bring down
INT: spreads A swimmer swim will lay his pride