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צָמַד

tsâmad · H6775 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to be fastened, to be girded

    State in which humans have something attached to their body

    Examples

    2 Samuel 20:8 When they were at the large stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was dressed in his military attire, and over it he had a belt with a sword in its sheath strapped on at his waist; and as he went forward, it fell out.

  2. Action by which humans become involved with a deity through worship (to associate (with))

    Examples

    Numbers 25:3 So Israel became followers of Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry with Israel.

    Numbers 25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill his men who have become followers of Baal of Peor.”

    Psalm 106:28 They also followed Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

  3. Action by which part of the human body become engaged in a certain activity (to be engaged (in a certain activity))

    Examples

    Psalm 50:19 “You let your mouth loose in evil, And your tongue harnesses deceit.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 5 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 3 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 2 words
דָּבַק dâbaq · H1692 · to stick together, to cling together, to cling
דָּבַק (‘to cleave fast together, to be joined, to stick’) and the target lexeme (‘to fasten, join’) both describe similar acts of joining or attaching, functioning as near-synonyms.
קָשַׁר qâshar · H7194 · to be joined together, to be combined, to put on (ornaments)
The target lexeme and קָשַׁר both denote acts of physical joining or fastening — bringing things together — and function as near-synonyms.
Semantic domains 3 entries
Attach002003001001
This domain's connection to צָמַד is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of joining oneself to a god or of a garment fastened on rather than a physical attaching of objects.
Associate002003002002
צָמַד most often means to join oneself to something, as of Israel joining itself to Baal of Peor in Numbers 25:3 and 25:5, and Psalm 106:28, and their tongues harnessed to deceit in Psalm 50:19.
Engage002003003011
This domain's connection to צָמַד is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of joining oneself to a false god rather than engaging in an activity or task.
Word family 2 words

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

צָמַדtsâmad · H6775צָמִיד tsâmîyd · H6781 · bracelet, cover, lid · 7×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6775. tsamad [צָמַד] verb bind, join (Arabic bind, wind, specifically of girl with two…
H6775. tsamad
[צָמַד] verb bind, join (Arabic bind, wind, specifically of girl with two lovers WeGGN 1893, 470; fasten (cattle) to yoke Dozy, yoke, Id.; Assyrian ƒmâdu, bind, harness, so Ethiopic and III. be attached, attach oneself, specifically be (religiously) devoted; Aramaic צְמַד, , bind); —
Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִּצָּ֫מֶד Num 25:3; Num 25:3masculine plural וַיִּצָּֽדְֶוּ Psa 106:28; Participle plural נִעצמָדִים Num 25:5; join, attach, oneself to (ל) Baal Peor, i.e. adopt his worship Num 25:3, Num 25:5 (JE), whence Psa 106:28.
Pu`al Participle feminine צְצֻמֶּ֫דֶת 2Sa 20:8 a sword bound upon (עַל) his loins.
Hiph`il Imperfect3feminine singular מִרְמָה תַּצְמִיד Psa 50:19 thy tongue combineth (fitteth together, frameth) deceit (> denominative from צֶמֶד Gerber170).

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Attach1 occurrenceAssociate3 occurrencesEngage1 occurrence

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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