H7907 H7907
celestial phenomenon, clouds; mind (disputed meaning)
A highly disputed noun appearing only in Job 38:36, where God questions Job about who gave wisdom to hidden things. Ancient and modern interpreters offer wildly different readings. Some rabbinic sources understand it as 'mind' or 'inward parts,' while others propose 'rooster' (based on later Hebrew usage). De Dieu suggested 'cloud formation,' fitting the parallel with 'mists' (טֻחוֹת). The RV margin proposes 'meteor.' This lexical uncertainty reflects the word's extreme rarity and the poetic obscurity characteristic of God's speeches in Job. The multilingual glosses diverge dramatically—Spanish has 'rooster,' English 'mind,' showing translators' perplexity.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — In Job 38:36, this noun appears in God's challenging rhetorical question about cosmic wisdom: 'Who put wisdom in שֶׂכְוִי?' The prepositional phrase 'to the שֶׂכְוִי' (לַשֶּׂכְוִי) follows parallel structure with other mysterious phenomena. Multilingual evidence shows profound disagreement: Spanish renders 'al gallo' (to the rooster), English 'to the mind,' French and German bracket the Hebrew, acknowledging untranslatability. The parallel term טֻחוֹת (clouds, mists) suggests celestial phenomena rather than animal or mental faculties. The domain assignment to 'Geographical Objects' seems problematic—this likely belongs to natural phenomena or wisdom vocabulary. 1×
AR["لِلدِّيكِ"]·ben["-মোরগকে"]·DE["[לשכוי]"]·EN["to-the-mind"]·FR["לשכוי"]·heb["ל-שכוי"]·HI["मन-को"]·ID["kepada-pikiran"]·IT["al-a-il-mind"]·jav["dhatèng-manuk-jago"]·KO["마음-에게"]·PT["ao-galo"]·RU["сердцу"]·ES["al-gallo"]·SW["kwa-akili"]·TR["horoza"]·urd["ذہن کو"]
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Referencia BDB / Léxico
† שֶׂכְוִי n.[m.] perhaps a celestial appearance, phenomenon (Rabb. Thes mind; De(afterTalm.) cock (cf. NH שֶׂכְוִי cock, שֶׂכְוְיָה hen, foreign words acc. Dalm), Di ‘Wolkengebilde’);—abs. שׂ׳ perhaps of clouds (cf. ‖ טֻחוֹת) Jb 38:36 (RVm meteor).