Word

צֶלַע

tselaʻ · H6761 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

stumbling, failing

Literally: limping; hence: process by which humans do not live up to the expectations others have of them

Examples
Job 18:12 “His strength is famished, And disaster is ready at his side.
Psalm 35:15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; The afflicted people whom I did not know gathered together against me, They slandered me without ceasing.
Psalm 38:17 For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

How it’s used In 3 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

3 occurrences in 2 groups

יmy 2
הוּhis 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 4
בin/on/with 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁמַרto keep, to guard, to observe 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

Fail002003003013: צֶלַע denotes adversity or a stumbling, as of the disaster ready at the wicked man's side in Job 18:12, the stumbling David's enemies rejoice over in Psalm 35:15, the stumbling he confesses before the LORD in Psalm 38:18, and the stumbling Jeremiah's trusted friends watch for in Jeremiah 20:10.

Word family 4 words

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

צָלַע tsâlaʻ · H6760 · to limp · 4×צֵלָע tsêlâʻ · H6763 · rib, plank, board · 40×צֶלַעtselaʻ · H6761עֲלַע ʻălaʻ · H5967 · rib · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6761. tsela צֶ֫לַע noun [masculine] limping, stumbling; — figurative of calamity,…

H6761. tsela
צֶ֫לַע noun [masculine] limping, stumbling; — figurative of calamity, absolute ׳לְצ Psa 38:18 I am ready (נָכוֺן) for stumbling (and falling); suffix בְּצַלְעִי Psa 35:15 at my stumbliing; צ ׳שֹׁמְרֵי Jer 20:10 watchers of my stumbling; לְצַלְעוֺ נָכוֺן אֵיד Job 18:12 ruin is ready for his stumbling. - See also צֵלָע construct

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Fail4 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