H7616 H7616
splinters, fragments, broken pieces
This plural noun probably means splinters or fragments, appearing in Hosea 8:6 in judgment against the golden calf of Samaria: 'it shall be broken in pieces' (literally 'it shall become splinters'). The image is of complete fragmentation—the idol reduced to shards and fragments, utterly destroyed. The term evokes not just breaking but disintegration into many small pieces. The golden calf, crafted by human hands, will be smashed into splinters, demonstrating its utter powerlessness.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Hosea 8:6 pronounces doom on Samaria's calf-idol: 'it shall become splinters'—complete fragmentation. Spanish 'pedazos' (pieces/fragments) captures the multiplication of broken parts. The image reverses creation: what craftsmen assembled will be shattered into countless fragments. The splinters represent both physical destruction and theological point—this 'god' crafted from precious metal has no divine substance, just material that breaks. The calf's fate as splinters mocks the worship that treated metal as deity. 1×
AR["كُسارَاتٍ"]·ben["টুকরোগুলি"]·DE["[שבבים]"]·EN["splinters"]·FR["captif"]·heb["שבבים"]·HI["टुकड़े"]·ID["serpihan-serpihan"]·IT["[שבבים]"]·jav["dados-réma"]·KO["조각들이"]·PT["pedaços"]·RU["осколками"]·ES["pedazos"]·SW["vipande"]·TR["parçalar"]·urd["ٹکڑے"]
Related Senses
H3605 1. all, every, whole (5352×)H0259 1. one (cardinal numeral) (940×)H8147 1. cardinal number two (666×)G3956 1. all (collective plural) (616×)H3967 1. cardinal numeral hundred (550×)H1419a 1. great, large (general quality) (486×)H7969 1. cardinal number three (431×)H0505 1. cardinal number thousand (427×)H7651 1. seven (cardinal number) (393×)G1520 1. cardinal number one (339×)H6240 1. ten (cardinal number) (334×)H6242 1. twenty (cardinal number) (315×)H2568 1. cardinal number five (309×)H0702 1. four (cardinal number) (277×)G3956 2. every, each (distributive) (227×)H8337 1. six (cardinal number) (215×)G3956 3. all things, everything (substantive) (211×)G3956 4. (187×)H6235 1. ten (177×)G3173 1. great in size or extent (176×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שְׁבָבִים n.[m.]pl. probably splinters;—שׁ׳ יִהְיֶה עֵגֶל שֹׁמְרוֹן Ho 8:6 (cf. We; Vrss appar. conjecture).