† [
שָׁמַט]
verb let drop (Late Hebrew
id., loosen, detach, draw away, Niph.
slip off; Aramaic
שְׁמַטּ loosen, pull away;
draw sword,
draw or
pull away; Arabic
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; is
hang, suspend, II. release debtor (Kam),
string of pearls); —
Qal let drop, fall:
Imperative masculine plural suffix +
Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix
וַיִּשְׁמְטוּהָ (final
ו dittograph)
שִׁמְטוּהָו 2 Kings 9:33 he said,
Let her fall, and they let her fall; then figurative, of letting land rest in seventh year:,
2nd person masculine singular suffix:
תִּשְׁמְטֶנָּה Exodus 23:11 (E);
Perfect 2nd person masculine singular וְשָׁמַטְתָּ֫ה >
Jeremiah 17:4 thou shalt let drop thy hand (read
יָֽךְךָ for
וּבְךְ JDMich and modern) from (
מִן) thine inheritance, i.e. abandon it;
Infinitive abs.
שָׁמוֺט Deuteronomy 15:2 let fall (a debt in seventh year; see
מַשֶּׁה b). —
Perfect 3rd person plural שָֽׁמְטוּ הַבָּקָר 2 Samuel 6:6=
1 Chronicles 13:9 is dubious, most naturally either
they let the oxen fall (slip, stumble), or (as Targan)
the oxen let it fall (reading
שְׁמָטוֺ, that is, the ark); > Thes the
oxen ran away;
slipped (the yoke)? see further Dr.
Niph. Perfect 3rd person plural נִשְׁמְטוּ Psalm 141:6 their judges
have been thrown down.
Hiph. 2nd person masculine singular (?) jussive (?)
תַּשְׁמֵט Deuteronomy 15:3 thou, shalt cause thy hand
to let drop, etc.; Ba
NB 147 Qal; < read
תִּשְׁמֹט (compare Dr),
יָרֶ֑ךָ subject.
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