Lexical Definition

‎סָרַח‎ çârach (saw-rakh') to overrun ^H:V
a primitive root

exceeding, hand, spread, stretch self, banish.

• to extend (even to excess)

1) to go free, be unrestrained, be overrun, exceed, overhang, grow luxuriously
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go free, be unrestrained, sprawl
1a1a) overrunning, spreading (participle)
1a2) to overhang
1b) (Niphal) to be let loose or dismissed or gone

See Greek: ἐπικαλύπτω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎סָרַח‎ verb go free, be unrestrained, overrun, exceed (Late Hebrew ‎סָרוּחַ‎ overhanging, flapping; Arabic of camels, etc., pasture where they please; also send forth to pasture; II. let a wife go free; let down the hair; easy. — Late Hebrew ‎סָרַח‎, Aramaic usually = corrupt, sin); —

Qal Imperfect 3 feminine singular ‎תִּסְרַח‎ Exod 26:12 Participle active feminine ‎סֹרַ֫חַת‎ Ezek 17:6 passive ‎סָרוּחַ‎ (compare Kö^{ii. 1, 137} Ges^{«GKC:50»§ 50} f. Ba^{NB 180}) Exod 26:13 plural ‎סְרוּחִים‎ Amos 6:7, ‎סְרֻחִים‎ vAmos 6:4 construct ‎סְרוּחֵי‎ Ezek 23:15 —

1. go free, be unrestrained: ‎וּסְרֻחִים עַלעַֿרְשׂוֺתָם‎ Amos 6:4 i.e. probably = and are sprawling upon their couches (in contemptuous hyperbole), ‎׳‎‎מִרַזְח ס‎ vAmos 6:7 the revelry of sprawlers; participle active of overrunning, spreading vine Ezek 17:6.

2. of overhanging stuffs (properly overrunning, exceeding, extended beyond limits) ‎תִּסְרַח עַל אֲחֹרֵי‎ ‎הַמִּשְׁכָּן‎ Exod 26:12 (P) it shall overrun (overhang), over the back of the tabernacle, so ‎יִהְיֶה סָרוּחַ‎ ‎׳‎‎עַלצִֿדֵּי הַמּ‎ vExod 26:13 ‎סְרוּחֵי טְבוּלִים‎ Ezek 23:15 overhungof turbans, extended with respect to turbans, = with pendant turbans (compare [‎טְבוּל‎]). Niph`al Perfect 3 feminine singular ‎נִסְרְחָה חָכְמָתָם‎ Jer 49:7 usually is their wisdom let loose (i.e. dismissed, gone)? (|| ‎הַאֵין עוֺד‎ ‎חָכְמָה בְּתֵימָ֑ן אָֽבְד עֵצָה מִבַּנִים‎); but Nö^{Expos. May, 1897, 363} is corrupt (compare Late Hebrew, and especially Aramaic).

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