Word

צָהַב

tsâhab · H6668 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to be polished, to be bright, to shine like gold

    State in which metal shines like gold; possibly by polishing

    Examples

    Ezra 8:27 and twenty gold bowls worth a thousand darics, and two utensils of fine shiny bronze, precious as gold.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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 1 entry
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צָהַב describes a fine, gleaming quality, as of the utensils of fine shiny bronze counted precious as gold among the returning exiles' offerings in Ezra 8:27.
Word family 2 words

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6668. tsaheb or tsahob [צָהֹב צָהֵב,, compare LagBN 31] verb gleam (Late Hebrew id. (of…
H6668. tsaheb
or tsahob [צָהֹב צָהֵב,, compare LagBN 31]
verb gleam (Late Hebrew id. (of face, bronze, etc.); Arabic be red); —
Hoph`al Participle מֻצְהָב נְחשֶׁת Ezr 8:27 polished bronze (so Late Hebrew and-apparently Hebraism - ᵑ72Ch 4:16).

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

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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