נָצַץ
nâtsats · H5340 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to gleam
State in which objects reflect light
ExamplesEzekiel 1:7 Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they sparkled like polished bronze.
How it’s used In 2 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
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- רִמּוֹןpomegranate 2
- שָׁקֵדalmond tree 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as+ עַיִןeye, sight 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 1 word
- נָגַהּ nâgahh · H5050 · to shine, to cause to shine
- Both terms denote light-emission phenomena. One covers broader shining or enlightening actions, while the other focuses on sparkling or glittering — overlapping but not identical senses within the domain of light.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Shine002001001053
- The word describes sparkling or gleaming, as precious stones sparkle in their setting (Ecclesiastes 3:5's cognate imagery and similar poetic uses), tying the word to a bright, glinting appearance.
- Stage002001001060
- The word can describe a culminating, climactic flash or moment of brilliance, a broader narrative-structural sense than plain visual sparkle.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5340. natsats I. [נָצַץ] verb shine, sparkle (Late Hebrew נִצְנֵץ; akin to Arabic…
I. [נָצַץ] verb shine, sparkle (Late Hebrew נִצְנֵץ; akin to Arabic sparkle, flash, נְעָא ᵑ7); —
Qal Participle נְחשֶׁת כְּעֵין וְנֹצְצִים Eze 1:7 (of cherubim); — PerlesAnal.45 proposes נוֺצִיצָם their plumage (׳נ || form of נוֺצָה), compare Ew.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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