שֵׂחַ H7808
His thought, likely God's thoughts or mental activity, though the text may be corrupt
Amos proclaims God's comprehensive knowledge: he forms mountains, creates wind, and 'declares to humanity what his thought is.' This rare noun appears only here, and scholars debate whether the text is original or textually disturbed. The context celebrates divine omniscience—God's inner mental activity is not hidden but revealed to human beings. Some propose reading 'his conversation' or 'his meditation' based on slight textual adjustments, but the transmitted text emphasizes divine thought becoming known.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Appears in Amos 4:13 within a doxology of God as creator and revealer. The possessive suffix 'his' refers to God—'his thought' is the divine mental content that humans could never access except by revelation. French renders this simply as 'pensée' (thought), treating it as straightforward vocabulary. The verse's structure parallels God's creative acts (forming, creating) with his revelatory act (declaring), making human knowledge of divine thought a kind of miracle. 1×
AR["فِكْرُهُ"]·ben["তার-চিন্তা"]·DE["[שחו]"]·EN["his-thought"]·FR["pensée"]·heb["שׂיחוֹ"]·HI["विचार-उसका"]·ID["pikiran-Nya"]·IT["[שחו]"]·jav["kang-ndadosaken"]·KO["그의-생각인지를"]·PT["seu-pensamento"]·RU["мысль-Его"]·ES["es-su-pensamiento"]·SW["mawazo-yake"]·TR["düşüncesi"]·urd["اُس-کا-خیال"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
[שֵׂחַ] n.[m.] thought;—sf. מַגִּיד לְאָדָם מַה־ שֵּׂחוֹ Am 4:13; read prob. שִׂחוֹ (against BaNB 79, 80) unless otherwise corrupt.