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blasted grain, crops destroyed by scorching wind before maturity

strive, struggle, make earnest effort (Aramaic)

Shadrach (Babylonian name given to Hananiah, one of Daniel's companions)

witness, advocate (Aramaic loan-word)

Shoham (personal name of a Levite)

when rising up, at the rising (of waves)

ravages, devastating destruction (uncertain reading)

Sheva (personal name, Calebite or David's scribe)

returning, turning back; retirement or withdrawal

interwoven branches, network of boughs forming thick foliage

Shobek (personal name of a post-exilic leader)

turn back, retreat, prove unfaithful (Niphal)

fence about, protect; cause to grow (Piel)

devastate, destroy, ruin violently

tumult, roaring noise, crashing sound (especially of storm)

be made equal to, become like (Aramaic, Qere/Piel)

be made equal to, become like (Aramaic, Ketiv/Nifal)

be made into, be turned into (Aramaic Hithpael)

to meditate, muse, go about in thought (uncertain)

Shuchah (personal or place name, uncertain)

Shuham (personal name, ancestor of Danite clan)

branch, bough (with suffix)

branch, bough (construct form)

Sukathites (gentilicic name of a scribal family)

garlic (plant used for food)

the Shunite (gentilicic designation of clan descended from Shuni)

A cry, likely a war-cry or shout for help in battle

Shoa, an ancient people identified with Sutû nomads of Mesopotamia and beyond the Tigris

My cry, a noun describing the psalmist's cry for help directed to God

Shual, a district in Israel along the route to Ophrah

Shual, a personal name in the tribe of Asher

The Shuphamite, gentilician referring to descendants of Shupham in Benjamin's census

He sawed, though the verbal form is disputed and may represent 'he set' instead

On my enemies, though the Hebrew is textually corrupt and alternate readings suggest 'my adversaries'

Their walls, possibly their vine-rows, with scholarly debate between structural and agricultural meanings

In rows, likely a scribal repetition of the following word 'barley,' though possibly an agricultural term

Sorek, the valley where Delilah lived, named after choice vines

Shavsha, David's scribe, with variant spellings across biblical manuscripts (Seraiah, Sheva, Shisha)

Shushankhaye, the people of Susa (Susians), forcibly resettled in Samaria by Assyria

Lowly of eyes, humble in demeanor or gaze

His thought, likely God's thoughts or mental activity, though the text may be corrupt

Swimming, the action of propelling oneself through water

Than soot, describing a color darker than blackness itself

Into his own pit, a metaphor for the trap one sets catching oneself

I squeezed, describing the action of pressing grapes to extract juice

Deadly, sharpened for killing, describing a tongue as a weapon

Slaughter, possibly in contexts of illegitimate worship or apostasy, though the text is textually disputed

Slaughtering of, a nominal form describing the ritual act of slaying Passover lambs

Paneled, describing wood covering or wainscoting, though the root is unknown and meaning debated

Onycha, an aromatic ingredient in the holy incense, possibly from mollusk opercula