Word

זָחַח

zâchach · H2118 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to come loose

Process by which an object is too loosely attached to another object

Examples
Exodus 28:28 “And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a violet cord, so that it will be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece will not come loose from the ephod.
Exodus 39:21 And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a violet cord, so that it would be on the woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

חֹשֶׁןbreast-piece 2

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as+ צָוָהto give orders 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 1 groups

לֹאnot 2

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 1 word

רָפָה râphâh · H7503 · to grow weak, to be discouraged: רָפָה denotes slackness, looseness, or weakness in a general sense, overlapping with זָחַח's sense of being loose or moved aside

Contrasting words 2 words

חָזַק châzaq · H2388 · to be strong, to prevail, to overcome: חָזַק denotes strength, firmness, and being secure—the direct opposite of being loose or moved
אָמַץ ʼâmats · H553 · to be strong, to be powerful, to prevail: אָמַץ denotes being strong, firm, and secure—opposite to the looseness or displacement implied by זָחַח

Semantic domains 1 entry

Non-Whole002003001021: זָחַח denotes becoming loose or detached, as the breastpiece is bound so that it will not come loose from the ephod.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

זָחַחzâchach · H2118מָזִיחַ mâzîyach · H4206 · belt, girdle, restraint · 3×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2118. zachach [זָחַח] verb remove, displace (Arabic push, thrust away; compare also…

H2118. zachach
[זָחַח] verb remove, displace (Arabic push, thrust away; compare also Aramaic זוּחַ, , move, move away (intransitive)) —
Niph`al Imperfect הָאֵפוֺד מֵעַל הַחשֶׁן יִזַּח וְלֹא Exo 28:28 and that the breast-piece be not displaced etc., Exo 39:21 (both P).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Non-Whole2 occurrences

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