בִּצָּה
bitstsâh · H1207 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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swamp, marsh
An area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times; a place where reeds and papyrus grow
ExamplesJob 8:11 “Can papyrus grow tall without a marsh? Can the rushes grow without water?
Job 40:21 “He lies down under the lotus plants, In the hiding place of the reeds and the marsh.
Ezekiel 47:11 “But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סֵתֶרsecret, hiding place 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- אֲגַם ʼăgam · H98 · pool, marsh, fortress
- Standing body of water, marsh or pool, overlaps semantically with fen/marshland but emphasizes the water collection rather than the muddy/swampy character
- יָוֵן yâvên · H3121 · mud
- General term for mire/mud/clay, often used metaphorically; shares the core sense of muddy ground but is more broadly applied than the specific marshland/fen sense of בִּצָּה
- טִיט ṭîyṭ · H2916 · mud, dirt, mire
- Clay or mud, especially wet mud; shares the miry/muddy quality but can refer to any muddy material, not specifically marshland or fen
In the other Testament 1 word
- βόρβορος bórboros · G1004 · mud, mire
- Greek term for mire/mud, used in 2 Peter 2:22 for muddy place where swine wallow; direct translation equivalent for the Hebrew concept of swampy, muddy ground
Semantic domains 1 entry
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1207. bitstsah בִּצָּה noun feminine swamp, Job 8:11 as place where rushes grow, compare…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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