אֶצְבַּע
ʼetsbaʻ · H677 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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finger
One of the five long and slender projections of the human hand; used for writing, pointing, grasping, and other activities; sometimes used metonymically to represent the entire body
ExamplesDaniel 5:5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing.
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toe
One of the five projections of the human foot
ExamplesDaniel 2:41 “And in that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have within it some of the toughness of iron, since you saw the iron mixed with common clay.
Daniel 2:42 “And just as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong, and part of it will be fragile.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רְגַלfoot 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יַדhand, power 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְפַקto come out, to take out 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- δάκτυλος dáktylos · G1147 · finger, power
- Greek δάκτυλος renders Hebrew אֶצְבַּע in its primary sense of 'finger' (and by extension 'toe'), representing the standard translation equivalent across both literal anatomical references and figurative uses (e.g., the finger of God).
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- This code is inherited from the shared root's use of "finger" as a small unit of measure, not independently attested by אֶצְבַּע (ʼetsbaʻ, H677)'s own citations, which are the literal toes of the statue and the fingers of the hand that wrote on the wall.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H677. etsba [אֶצְבַּע] noun feminine 1 finger; 2 toe (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew id.); —…
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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