Word

צַו

tsav · H6673 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

command, precept

Legal order that people are expected to obey; rejected by some as a heavy burden

Examples
Isaiah 28:10 “For He says, ‘Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.’”
Isaiah 28:13 So the word of the LORD to them will be, “Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.
tsade tsade qoph qoph

The letters tsade and qoph of the Hebrew alphabet recited as part of a kind of nursery rhyme; associated with childish behavior and therefore looked upon with contempt

Examples
Isaiah 28:10 “For He says, ‘Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.’”
Isaiah 28:13 So the word of the LORD to them will be, “Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.
worthlessness

Exact meaning unsure; possibly: something regarded as not having any importance or value

Examples
Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed, broken by judgment, Because he was determined to follow man’s command.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

What it is said to bePredicate

4 occurrences in 1 groups

צַוcommand 4

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

4 occurrences in 1 groups

צַוcommand 4

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 4
אַחַרafter, behind 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 2 words

פִּתְגָּם pithgâm · H6599 · statement, decree, report: The target lexeme (‘commandment, precept’) and פִּתְגָם (‘decree, sentence’) both denote authoritative legal directives, functioning as near-synonyms within the legal-command semantic space.
פִּקּוּד piqqûwd · H6490 · commandments, precepts: The target lexeme (‘commandment, precept’) and פִּקּוּדִים (‘commandment, precept, statute’) are near-synonyms whose glosses overlap almost completely, both denoting an authoritative command or precept.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Laws002003003016: צַו denotes a command or precept, as of the repeated order upon order Isaiah pictures the LORD's word being reduced to in Isaiah 28:10 and 28:13, and the command of man Ephraim is determined to follow in Hosea 5:11.
Sounds002004001009007: This domain's connection to צַו is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of a command or precept rather than a general sound.
Worthless002001002030: This domain's connection to צַו is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of a command or precept rather than worthlessness.

Word family 4 words

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

צָוָה tsâvâh · H6680 · to give orders, to order, to command · 494×מִצְוָה mitsvâh · H4687 · command · 181×צַוtsav · H6673צִי tsîy · H6716 · ship, wild animals · 4×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6673. tsav צַו apparently noun [masculine], dubious word; — in אַחֲרֵיצָָֿ֑ו הָלַךְ Hos…

H6673. tsav
צַו apparently noun [masculine], dubious word; — in אַחֲרֵיצָָֿ֑ו הָלַךְ Hos 5:11 usually command, ordinance; < ᵑ6 ᵐ5 Che Now GASm שָׁוְא; elsewhere only לָצָ֔ו צַו לָצָ֨ו צַו (|| לָקָו קַו קָו לָקָו קַו), Isa 28:10 in mocking mimicry of Isaiah's words, and, Isa 28:13, of the unintelligible speech of ׳י's foreign agents of judgement; Ges CheComm. and others (compare AV RV) render command upon command; Ew Di (carpenter's) rule (+ קַו = line and rule), from √צָוָה (whence צִיּוּן); Du CheHpt explain as mocking sounds without sense.

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Worthless1 occurrence Laws7 occurrences Sounds7 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

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