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Lexicon :: Strong's H5496 - sûṯ

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סוּת
Transliteration
sûṯ
Pronunciation
sooth
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps denominative from שַׁיִת (H7898)
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TWOT Reference: 1481

Strong’s Definitions

סוּת çûwth, sooth; perhaps denominative from H7898; properly, to prick, i.e. (figuratively) stimulate; by implication, to seduce:—entice, move, persuade, provoke, remove, set on, stir up, take away.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's H5496 in the following manner: persuade (5x), move (5x), set on (2x), stir up (2x), away (1x), entice (1x), provoked (1x), removed (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's H5496 in the following manner: persuade (5x), move (5x), set on (2x), stir up (2x), away (1x), entice (1x), provoked (1x), removed (1x).

  1. to incite, allure, instigate, entice

    1. (Hiphil)

      1. to incite (to a request)

      2. to allure, lure

      3. to instigate (bad sense)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סוּת çûwth, sooth; perhaps denominative from H7898; properly, to prick, i.e. (figuratively) stimulate; by implication, to seduce:—entice, move, persuade, provoke, remove, set on, stir up, take away.
STRONGS H5496: Abbreviations
† [סוּת] verb Hiph. incite, allure, instigate (Late Hebrew Hiph., id.); —
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix הֱסִֽיתְךָ 1 Samuel 26:19, הֲסֵיתְךָ Job 36:16; 3rd person feminine singular הֵסַ֫תָּה 1 Kings 21:25 (Ges§ 72 w Köi. 460); 3 plural suffix הִסִּית֫וּךָ Jeremiah 38:22 (Ges§ 72 ee); Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַסִּית 2 Kings 18:32 + 2 times, but also וַיָּ֫סֶת 2 Samuel 24:1; 1 Chronicles 21:1, suffix יְִֽֽֽסיתְךָ Deuteronomy 13:7; Job 36:18, etc.; Participle מַסִּית Jeremiah 43:3; 2 Chronicles 32:11; —
1.
a. incite to make a request (with accusative of person + infinitive) Judges 1:14 (on text see GFM) = Joshua 15:18.
b. allure מִמֶּנּוּ וַיְסִיתֵם 2 Chronicles 18:31 and God allured them away from him (si vera lectio; strike out clause as gloss Be Kit); so also Job 36:16 according to De Hi Bu and others; he allureth thee out of the mouth of distress, but Di Du freedom hath seduced thee; for meaning seduce, entice, compare also Job 36:18.
2. instigate, in bad sense, with accusative of person, + בְּ against, 1 Samuel 26:19; 2 Samuel 24:1; Jeremiah 43:3; Job 2:3; with accusative of person alone 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Kings 18:32 = Isaiah 36:18, compare 2 Chronicles 32:15; Deuteronomy 13:7; Jeremiah 38:22; + infinitive 1 Chronicles 21:1; 2 Chronicles 18:2; 32:11.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

13:7; 13:7

Joshua

15:18

Judges

1:14

1 Samuel

26:19; 26:19

2 Samuel

24:1; 24:1

1 Kings

21:25; 21:25

2 Kings

18:32; 18:32

1 Chronicles

21:1; 21:1

2 Chronicles

18:2; 18:31; 32:11; 32:11; 32:15

Job

2:3; 36:16; 36:16; 36:18; 36:18

Isaiah

36:18

Jeremiah

38:22; 38:22; 43:3; 43:3

H5496

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5496 matches the Hebrew סוּת (sûṯ),
which occurs 18 times in 18 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - “If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:18 - Now it was so, when she came to him, that she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. So she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you wish?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - Now it happened, when she came to him, that she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you wish?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19 - “Now therefore, please, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:1 - Again the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - ‘until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:1 - Now Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:2 - After some years he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria; and Ahab killed sheep and oxen in abundance for him and the people who were with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:31 - So it was, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore they surrounded him to attack; but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him, and God diverted them from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 - ‘Does not Hezekiah persuade you to give yourselves over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, “The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:15 - ‘Now therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you like this, and do not believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:16 - “Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress,
Into a broad place where there is no restraint;
And what is set on your table would be full of richness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:18 - Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow;
For a large ransom would not help you avoid it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18 - ‘Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:22 - ‘Now behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be surrendered to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say:

“Your close friends have set upon you
And prevailed against you;
Your feet have sunk in the mire,
And they have turned away again.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:3 - “But Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death or carry us away captive to Babylon.”
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