Word

זָמַר

zâmar · H2168 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to prune

Causative action by which someone cuts away or cuts back unproductive branches so that they can produce better

Examples
Leviticus 25:3 ‘For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce,
Leviticus 25:4 but during the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
Isaiah 5:6 “I will lay it waste; It will not be pruned nor hoed, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”

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

3 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated: you (one person) 2
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

כֶּרֶםvineyard 2

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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Semantic domains 3 entries

Sing002004001009006: This entry carries no singing sense of its own; the domain is bundle-shared with the closely related lexeme זָמַר (zâmar, H2167) and does not reflect an independent attested usage — this lexeme instead denotes pruning a vine, as at Leviticus 25:3 — "for six years you shall prune your vineyard" — and Isaiah 5:6 — "It will not be pruned nor hoed."
Praise002004001009009: This entry carries no independent “Praise” sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the verb “prune”, as in “For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce” (Leviticus 25:3). The “Praise” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme זָמַר (zâmar, H2167) rather than independently attested here.
Non-Whole002003001021: This entry carries no non-whole/incomplete sense of its own; the domain is bundle-shared and does not reflect an independent attested usage of this pruning lexeme naming incompleteness.

Word family 10 words

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

סָמַר çâmar · H5568 · to bristle, to stand on end, (one's flesh) creeps · 2×זְמוֹרָה zᵉmôwrâh · H2156 · branch of vine · 5×מְזַמְּרָה mᵉzammᵉrâh · H4212 · wick trimmer · 5×מַזְמֵרָה mazmêrâh · H4211 · pruning knife · 4×מַסְמֵר maçmêr · H4548 · nail · 4×זָמַרzâmar · H2168זִמְרָה zimrâh · H2173 · music, strength · 1×מַשְׂמְרָה masmᵉrâh · H4930 · nail · 1×סָמָר çâmâr · H5569 · bristling locust · 1×זָמִיר zâmîyr · H2159 · singing, song, pruning · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2168. zamar II. [זָמַר] verb trim, prune (Late Hebrew id.; relation to √ I. obscure) —…

H2168. zamar
II. [זָמַר] verb trim, prune (Late Hebrew id.; relation to √ I. obscure) —
Qal Imperfect2masculine singular תִּזְמֹר Lev 25:3-4, of pruning a vineyard (כֶּרֶם; H).
Niph`al Imperfect יִזָּמֵר Isa 5:6 be pruned, subject כֶּרֶם ||(יֵעָדֵרׅ.

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

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