Strong's Hebrew · H7742

H7742 sûwach

שׂוּחַ

soo'-akh

to meditate

sûwach appears once in Scripture, in Genesis 24:63. In the Doxa app, open that verse, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to muse pensively

In the King James Version

meditate.

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 1 time in Scripture

Genesis 24:63

“Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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