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סוּת çûwth — properly, to prick, i.e. (figuratively) stimulate

pronounced sooth · Strong's H5496 · 18 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Hiph'il

Translated in the KJV as entice, move, persuade, provoke, remove, set on, stir up, take away.

perhaps denominative from H7898; properly, to prick, i.e. (figuratively) stimulate; by implication, to seduce.

çûwth in each stem

Hiph'il 18×

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Wayyiqtol 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (active) 2Jussive 1

יְסִֽיתְךָ֡ Deut 13:7 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; (KJV)

וַתְּסִיתֵ֨הוּ֙ Josh 15:18 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person feminine singular

And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? (KJV)

וַתְּסִיתֵ֨הוּ֙ Judg 1:14 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person feminine singular

And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou? (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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