צַחַר
tsachar · H6713 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Place
Meanings
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white, tawny
Whitish color of raw wool or unshorn sheep
ExamplesEzekiel 27:18 “Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool.
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Zahar, Sahar, Suhar
Location
ExamplesEzekiel 27:18 “Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- צֶמֶרwool 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
- לָבָן lâbân · H3836 · white
- The most common Hebrew adjective for 'white,' denoting white color in general usage; while צַחַר appears to connote a brighter or more gleaming white (possibly with overtones of dazzling brightness), לָבָן is the standard unmarked term for white coloration.
Contrasting words 1 word
- שָׁחֹר shâchôr · H7838 · black, dark
- The standard Hebrew adjective for 'black,' the canonical color-term opposite of white in Hebrew lexicography; direct antonym on the color spectrum.
In the other Testament 1 word
- λευκός leukós · G3022 · white, light color, bright
- The standard Greek adjective for 'white,' used throughout the LXX and NT to translate Hebrew color terms denoting whiteness; direct translation equivalent for צַחַר in contexts describing white/bright coloration.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Color002001001014
- צַחַר means white, describing the color of wool, as of the white wool Damascus trades to Tyre in Ezekiel 27:18.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This domain's connection to צַחַר is not directly illustrated among the sampled citation, which shows the word's sense of white wool rather than a place name.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6713. tsachar [צַ֫חַר noun [masculine] reddish-gray, tawny; — צָ֑חַר צֶמֶר Eze 27:18…
[צַ֫חַר noun [masculine] reddish-gray, tawny; — צָ֑חַר צֶמֶר Eze 27:18 wool of reddish-gray, tawny wool, or (Hi-Sm Krae), of land Sachar (si vera lectio; Co strike out צחר as dittograph).
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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