Word

צָבָה

tsâbâh · H6638 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to swell up, to cause to swell up

    To swell or become enlarged, specifically referring to a part of the human body puffing up

    Examples

    Numbers 5:22 and this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach, to make your belly swell up and your thigh shrivel.” And the woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

    Numbers 5:27 ‘When he has made her drink the water, then it will come about, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness, and her belly will swell up and her thigh will shrivel, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 2 entries
Shape002001001052
צָבָה means to swell, as of the belly the water of bitterness causes to swell in the ordeal of jealousy in Numbers 5:22 and 5:27.
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This domain's connection to צָבָה is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of physical swelling rather than desire.
Word family 4 words

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6638. tsabah I. [צָבָה] verb swell, swell up (Late Hebrew id.); — Qal Perfect3feminine…
H6638. tsabah
I. [צָבָה] verb swell, swell up (Late Hebrew id.); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular consecutive וְצָֽבְתָה Num 5:27; apparently
Hiph`il Infinitive construct לַצְבּוֺת Num 5:22, < read
Qal לִצְבּוֺת Di Ol§ 78 c Sta§ 114 a, 2; both of adulteress' belly. — צֹבֶיהָ Isa 29:7 see צבא.

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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