צְחִיחַ
tsᵉchîyach · H6706 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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bare
Literally: shining; hence: state in which an area of land is lacking topsoil, has little or no vegetation, and liquids are not absorbed by the ground
ExamplesNehemiah 4:13 then I stationed men in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, the exposed places, and I stationed the people in families with their swords, spears, and bows.
Ezekiel 24:7 “For her blood is in her midst; She placed it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on the ground To cover it with dust.
Ezekiel 24:8 “So that it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, So that it will not be covered.”
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- סֶלַעrock, cliff 4
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 4
- לto/for 4
- בin/on/with 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 2 entries
- Landscapes001002004
- צְחִיחַ denotes a bare or higher place, an exposed rocky surface, as of the bare rock Ezekiel says Jerusalem's blood was placed on rather than covered with dust in Ezekiel 24:7, and the bare rock Tyre is made into in Ezekiel 26:4.
- Open002001001042
- The word's sense of an exposed, bare surface ties to openness, closely related to the bare rock left uncovered in Ezekiel 24:7 and 24:8.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6706. tsachiach [צָחִיחַ] noun [masculine] shining, glaring, surface construct סֶלַע…
[צָחִיחַ] noun [masculine] shining, glaring, surface construct סֶלַע צְחִיחַ i.e. a smooth, bare, rock Eze 24:7-8, Eze 26:4, Eze 26:14; plural בַּצְּחִיחִים Neh 4:7 Qr (Kt בַּצְּחִחִיִּים), in glaring, bare places (?).
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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