Word

צִיבָא

Tsîybâʼ · H6717 · Hebrew · proper noun · 16 occurrences

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Person

Zibafirst named in 2 Samuel 9:213 verses

Meanings

Ziba

A man who was a servant of King Saul and assisted David after Saul's death

Examples
2 Samuel 9:2 Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they summoned him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” And he said, “I am your servant.”
2 Samuel 9:3 Then the king said, “Is there no one remaining of the house of Saul to whom I could show the kindness of God?” And Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan, one who is disabled in both feet.”
2 Samuel 9:4 So the king said to him, “Where is he?” And Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.”

How it’s used In 6 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 1 groups

נַעַרyoung man, servant, boy 3

What it doesIt is the subject

7 occurrences in 2 groups

אָמַרto say 6
חָלַקto divide, to distribute 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

וֹhim 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 4 groups

בֵּןson 1
עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
שֵׁםname 1
אַתָּהyou 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 4
לto/for 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בַּיִתhouse, household 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: צִיבָא is the personal name Ziba, the servant of Saul's house whom David summons to ask about any surviving heir in 2 Samuel 9:2, who tells David of Jonathan's disabled son Mephibosheth in 2 Samuel 9:3 and 9:4, and to whom David entrusts Saul's estate in 2 Samuel 9:9.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6717. Tsiba צִיבָא and (2Sa 16:4) צִבָא16 proper name, masculine Σ(ε)ιβα: servant of…

H6717. Tsiba
צִיבָא and (2Sa 16:4) צִבָא16
proper name, masculine Σ(ε)ιβα: servant of Saul's house, 2Sa 9:2 (twice in verse) + 14 t. 9, 16, 19.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People16 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